The First Hundred Days for Health Care

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 376; no. 25; pp. 2407 - 2409
• Main Author: Wilensky, Gail R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 22.06.2017
• Subjects: Health care policy; Health insurance; Insurance coverage; Insurance Coverage - legislation & jurisprudence; Insurance, Health - economics; Insurance, Health - legislation & jurisprudence; Medicaid; Medicaid - legislation & jurisprudence; Medicare - legislation & jurisprudence; Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Politics; Reforms; Taxes; Trump, Donald J; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0028-4793; 1533-4406
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1614965

President Donald Trump promised to make health care reform an early focus, and congressional Republicans have been trying to repeal and replace Obamacare. Despite having railed against Democrats for passing reform on a single-party vote, Republicans are doing exactly the same. Like my predictions about what a Republican win in the 2016 election would mean for U.S. health policy, 1 my expectations about the ease and speed of passing an Affordable Care Act (ACA) replacement bill during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have not exactly come to fruition. But given the Republican focus over the past 7 years on “repealing and replacing” the ACA and Trump’s promise to make health care reform an early focus of his administration (at one point, he suggested having Congress meet even before his inauguration), Congress’s attention to the issue has not been surprising . . .