President Donald J. Trump is Putting American Patients First by Making Healthcare More Transparent | Eastern NC Now

President Donald J. Trump is delivering on his promise to bring more healthcare price and quality transparency for American patients.

ENCNow
Press Release:



"We should also require drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals to disclose real prices to foster competition and bring costs down."
  — President Donald J. Trump


    IMPROVING PRICE AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY: President Donald J. Trump is delivering on his promise to bring more healthcare price and quality transparency for American patients.

  • President Trump is signing an Executive Order that directs his Administration to take steps to improve price and quality transparency in healthcare.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require hospitals to publicly disclose amounts that reflect what people actually pay for services in an easy-to-read format.
  • At President Trump's direction, HHS will begin the process of making information on out-of-pocket spending more readily available to patients before they receive care.
  • Researchers, innovators, and providers will get more access to data that will help them develop tools to provide patients with more information about healthcare prices and quality.
  • The Administration will improve quality measurements and make them public.
  • The President's order also improves consumers' incentives to shop for care by expanding the benefit of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and other tax-preferred health accounts.

    EMPOWERING PATIENTS WITH INFORMATION: Our healthcare system has long hid the true cost of care, keeping critical information from patients' hands and limiting competition.

  • For too long, powerful interests have blocked patients from knowing the true price and quality of healthcare, denying them the information they need to make informed choices.
  • Lack of transparency contributes to soaring costs, suppressed competition, and lower quality.
  • Patients face wide variations in prices, often for the same services, due to a lack of transparency.
  • When armed with accurate information, patients can often identify savings by shopping around for healthcare services.
  • Publicizing the true prices of healthcare services will allow Americans to make choices that fit their personal healthcare needs and financial situations.
  • Price and quality transparency will promote increased competition among healthcare providers, leading to better value and more innovative healthcare.

    INCREASING TRANSPARENCY TO LOWER COSTS: President Trump is working to lower healthcare costs by improving transparency and promoting competition.

  • The President signed legislation to end "gag" clauses that prevented pharmacists from letting patients know about potentially lower prices for drugs.
  • Recently, the Trump Administration took action to require drug manufacturers to publicly disclose drug prices in their television ads.
  • The President has taken action to empower consumers and expand affordable options like Health Reimbursement Arrangements, short-term plans, and Association Health Plans.
  • In 2018, President Trump launched a blueprint on ways to drive down drug prices and find savings for American patients.
    • After the President announced the blueprint, more than a dozen major drug makers enacted price freezes, reductions, or rollbacks.
    • Last year, prescription drug prices decreased for the first time in nearly 50 years.

You can visit a collection of all White House posts by clicking here.


Go Back

HbAD0

Latest State and Federal

The teachers union is pushing to cancel school on May 1 as Chicago public schools continue to report dismal student proficiency rates.
With a new roadside plaque unveiled in Ellerbe on April 23, legendary wrestler and local resident André René Roussimoff is finally getting the formal recognition fans believe he deserves.
Cheryl Hines. Dennis Quaid. Nicki Minaj. All became associated with the Trump administration. What happened next?
Two years ago, new media brought President Trump back to the White House. What happened?
Victims’ advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, and families impacted by violent crime gathered Tuesday at the North Carolina State Archives building in Raleigh to recognize National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and honor those affected by crime across North Carolina.
The POLITICO poll found that almost half of respondents think Hollywood players should "be less vocal with their political beliefs."
"They help cultivate a radical hate America agenda, and we can't afford that same toxic ideology in America's War Department.”

HbAD1

Tax Day is a week away, and the reports are in: North Carolinians are winning big with record-setting tax returns thanks to President Trump and Republicans' Working Families Tax Cuts.
“It is a trust fund, a piece of the American economy for every child that they will be able to take out when they are 18.”
For most of her life, Zofia Cheeseman built her life and schedule around being a gymnast until a health scare forced her to look at her life off the mat.
"We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba."
You can't make this up. If you turned this script into Hollywood, they'd say it's too on the nose.
"Alaska native" firms, most often in Virginia, were paid $45 billion in Pentagon contracts thanks to DEI law.

HbAD2

 
 
Back to Top