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BlackGoku

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The Four Core Pillars of Trump Healthcare 2.0​

November 11, 2024
While speculation swirls around key cabinet appointments in the incoming Trump administration, much is being written about how things might change for industries and the companies that compose them. Healthcare is no exception.
Speculation about possible changes originates from media coverage, healthcare trade associations, law firms, consultancies, think tanks and academics. Their views are primarily based on Trump Healthcare 1.0 initiatives (2017-2021), presumed Trump 2.0 leverage in the U.S. Senate, House and conservative Supreme Court and a belief by the Trump-team leaders that their mandate is to lower costs for “everyday Americans” and tighten border security.
Thus, Trump Healthcare 2.0 policy changes will be extensive, leveraging legislation, executive orders, agency administrative actions, court decisions and appropriations processes to reset the U.S. health system.
Context:
The red shift that enabled the 45th President to regain the White House was fueled by discontent and fear: discontent with prices paid by ordinary consumers and fear that illegal immigration was an existential threat. Abortion was an important concern to women but inflation and prices for gas, groceries, housing and healthcare mattered more. Exit polls indicate voter concern about how Trump 2.0 economic policies (tariffs et al) might inflate consumer prices or add up to $7 trillion to the national debt was low. And the fate of the Affordable Care Act was a non-issue: assurance about protection for pre-existing condition coverage neutered attention to other elements of the ACA that will get attention in Trump Healthcare 2.0 (i.e. subsidies, short-term plans, et al).
The Four Pillars of Trump Healthcare 2.0 Policy Changes
The new administration is inclined toward a transactional view of the U.S. health system. It does not envision transformational change; instead, it sees opportunity for the system to perform significantly better. Its policies, leadership appointments and actions will be predicated on these four pillars:
  • Access to the U.S. healthcare system is a right to be earned. Fundamentally, Trump Healthcare 2.0 builds on its moral conviction that there should be NO FREE LUNCHES whether it’s illegal immigrants or patients who use the health system without doing their part. Trump Healthcare 2.0 will advance mechanisms to enable self-care, increase personal responsibility, promote cheaper/better alternatives to traditional insurance and health delivery and challenge lawmakers to limit financial support to free-loaders. The fundamental notions of public health and community benefit will be revisited and restrictions enacted.
  • The status quo is not working. Change is needed. Polls show the majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the health system. Affordability is their major concern: escalating, inexplicable costs are forcing their employers to share more responsibility. Trump Healthcare 2.0 will implement changes that lower spending and costs for consumers and employers. They’ll leverage coalitions of working-class voters and businesses to enact policies that expose waste, fraud and abuse in the system and direct the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to streamline its structure and prioritize cost-effectiveness (the HHS Strategic Plan for 2022-2026 is up for review).
  • Private solutions solve public problems better than government. Trump Healthcare 2.0 posits that government is broken including the federal and state agencies that control healthcare oversight and funding. Reducing regulatory barriers to consolidation and innovation and lessening risks for private investors whose ventures align with Trump Healthcare 2.0 priorities will be foci. Fundamentally, Trump Healthcare 2.0 believes the private sector is better able to address problems than government bureaucrats: key Trump Healthcare 2.0 leadership positions will be filled by successful private sector operators instead of re-cycled DC luminaries desiring attention.
  • Price transparency fuels competition and value. Trump Healthcare 1.0 mandated hospital price transparency via its 2019 Executive Order: Trump Healthcare 2.0 will expand the scope and usefulness of price transparency mandates in hospital, ancillary and outpatient services, physician services, insurance and others. It will facilitate accelerated use of Artificial Intelligence in decision-making by consumers, providers and payers. It will expand timely access to data on prices, direct costs, overhead, executive compensation, outcomes, user experiences and other elements of care management provided by hospitals, physicians and other providers. And it will move quickly to implement site neutral payments in the 119th Trump Healthcare 2.0 holds that providers, insurers and drug companies are not inclined to transparency despite strong support from elected officials and voters. They’ll advance these policy changes anticipating pushback from industry insiders. Trump Healthcare 2.0 believes price transparency in healthcare will produce transformational changes that enable more competition and lower costs.
Looking ahead:
The Trump 2.0 team’s immediate task is to assemble its Cabinet: that’s taken prior administrations 38 days on average to complete. In tandem, temporary fixes for CMS’ pending Physician Pay Cut and telehealth expansion will pass as Congress’ lame duck session begins this week.
Looking to 2025, the Trump Healthcare 2.0 team will focus initially on issues in Congress where Bipartisan support appears strong i.e. regulation of PBMs, implementation of site neutral payment policies, expansion of drugs subject to Inflation Reduction Act’s pricing limits and perhaps others. It will plan its legislative agenda coordinating with key committees (i.e. Senate HELP, House Ways and Means et al) and outside groups that share its predisposition. And it will use its political clout to build popular support for healthcare reforms that respond directly to consumer (voter) concern about affordability.
Trump Healthcare 2.0 will bring heightened transparency to the health system and be premised on pillars that are popular with working class voters. It will not be a duplicate of Trump Healthcare 1.0: it will be much more.
These are the "death panels" based on what Pailin was talking about. Based on your socioeconomic status will determine the type of care you get. That cap that the government put on insulin??? Nah forget about that. "Our Eggs cost too much" :hmm: :smh:
 

RUDY RAYYY MO

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Fellas. I remember people in here were talking about heading over to Bluesky. I'm there now and it's pretty good. A bunch of Black people from Twitter just migrated over. When you first join they have what they call Feeds that are dedicated to specific things (horror movies, cooking etc). They have a feed called Blacksky which is basically a feed from Black people on Bluesky. It's a good way to find Black people over there.

One more thing. They call tweets SKEETS over there. It seems it was something the white people made up when they first started it and it caught on. Still you know us.....Black people will joke about anything.
Created by Blacks?
 

code_pirahna

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This type of condescension and elitism is why Dems lose.
Not condescending or being elite.

I m not trying to appeal to feelings.

Fuck your feelings

When a union member is on an infrastructure project that Joe Biden got approved and Trump bullshitted with for 4 years......

and you don't know who you are voting for.....

then yeah you have to dumb the shit down for the slow and ignorant
 

code_pirahna

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What did they say that says they think they’re white. The housing market and rent is crazy right now. They got studio apartments in the South Bronx right now for 3000$ and month.

Though I do think they think they white. This ain’t the reason why
Inflation is one thing.

But when you think that you are "different" from the ones that they are talking about it's the Story of OJ song.

They think they re assimilated in and that Trump isn't talking about them.

They think they are white or they are without a color as something that society defines them as.
 

code_pirahna

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It’s wild to say that out loud. But absolutely true and something the GOP has known and exploited for a long time and now with the Elon-X machine it’s next level.

There’s a lot more “uneducated” people out there than educated.

There’s a lot more people that will take things at face value vs going out and doing their own research.
The electorate is lazy as hell.
 

DC_Dude

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It is ESSENTIAL that you all watch this movie and pass it along and tell others on your social media to pass it on. It was released on Sept 5, 2025 and tells just how this election was stolen.





Greg Palast is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, BBC Television, Rolling Stone and his string of New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.

His latest film, “Vigilantes INC.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen” is narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen and George DiCaprio.


“Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. [Palast’s] stories bite, they’re so relevant they threaten to alter history.” — Chicago Tribune​



“The most important investigative reporter or our time,
up there with Woodward and Bernstein” – The Guardian

“Greg Palast is one of those inconveniently stubborn journalists who gets his teeth into a story and shakes it bloody right there in the middle of the parlor. Palast [has] dropped a bomb into the elections that has left credibility shrapnel all over the democratic process, if anyone cares to look for it..” – Esquire

“An American hero,” says Martin Luther King III

“A cross between Seymour Hersh and Jack Kerouac.” – Buzzflash Chronicle


@Camille @ghoststrike @DC_Dude


Yeah big fan of Palast.....

Dick Gregory co-signed him for several years before he passed away.....

He comes on the Carl Nelson show atleast 2-3 times a month.....Probably one of the best investigative journalists still living.....
 
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respiration

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Yeah big fan of Palast.....

Dick Gregory co-signed him for several years before he passed away.....

He comes on the Carl Nelson show atleast 2-3 times a month.....Probably one of the best investative journalists still living.....
Absolutely. This film, like his last, is eye-opening and extremely informative to say the least .

The discussions here on BGOL playing the blame game are IRRELEVANT.

This election was stolen- with receipts.

Just like 2016 was stolen- also with receipts (and not by the Russians either).
 

Non-StopJFK2TAB

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Absolutely. This film, like his last, is eye-opening and extremely informative to say the least .

The discussions here on BGOL playing the blame game are IRRELEVANT.

This election was stolen- with receipts.

Just like 2016 was stolen- also with receipts (and not by the Russians either).
How you guys allow yourself to walk down this street is depressing.
 

Bumpee

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Before anointing Trump the promise savior let's give him time to put his Tariffs in place and see the effect they have on them,.

My guess? He won't put anywhere near the amount of Tarriffs on things like he promise during campaigning. He knows they're shit if applied broadly. He just said all that crap for the votes and the gullible.
Let him fuck around with tariffs on those "brown countries" that produce coffee beans. Karens will lose their shit when the price of their Starbucks goes up.
 

easy_b

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He’s not going to do it the way he said during the campaign trail. Believe it or not he’s not that stupid. But saying it help him get elected!
He’s going to do it because Putin told him to do it like I keep telling y’all, Russia and North Korea destroy America. And with the racist and misogynistic attitude in this country, it can be easily destroyed.
 

respiration

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How you guys allow yourself to walk down this street is depressing.
This thread shows how Qanon is possible.
No. It shows how much a lifetime in America has dumbed people like you down and made you lazy as fuck.

Did you watch the film? No. How STUPID is it to make a comparison between this film, this filmmaker or any of his other investigative journalism work without knowing anything about them.
 

easy_b

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Destroy America without firing a single shot…

~Russia
Exactly and like I said, it can’t be easily done. This is also what happens when you have a lot of dumb people running around. I mean for crying out loud you have a lot of motherfuckers googling about tariffs after the election where they could have easily did that before the election. And in these days and times is not easy to be done because of the Internet, but some people choose to make their selves dumb.
 

Costanza

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No. It shows how much a lifetime in America has dumbed people like you down and made you lazy as fuck.

Did you watch the film? No. How STUPID is it to make a comparison between this film, this filmmaker or any of his other investigative journalism work without knowing anything about them.

I know who Palast is.

Did you watch 400 Mules? Were the people who called 2020 election deniers “STUPID” wrong?
 
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