The coronavirus shows why Trump's healthcare policies are dangerous for all
Seema Verma, the federal official in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, has blasted into the limelight. And not in a good way.
Meanwhile, Trump has taken steps to undermine an important instrument for getting treatment, especially a vaccine, to the public. That’s the Affordable Care Act, which requires that insurers provide certain preventive vaccines to their members without co-pays or deductibles. A COVID-19 vaccine, once it’s available, would almost certain make the list, as do seasonal flu vaccines.
The U.S. experience with a pandemic early in the calendar year will be uniquely challenging given that the vast majority of Americans have privately administered plans that rely on deductibles/cost-sharing as a fairly blunt utilization-management tool.Another feature of the American healthcare system that complicates the fight against the novel coronavirus is its reliance on insurance deductibles and co-pays to reduce the utilization of medical care.
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