MedPage Today July 26, 2018
-HHS chief takes Heritage Foundation stage to bash ACA, plug administration’s programs
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, JD, described the free-market principles driving the Trump Administration’s approach to healthcare policy at a briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday.
Specifically, Azar celebrated the expansion of alternatives to Obamacare, such as association health plans; doubled down on the administration’s commitment to work requirements — despite a federal court decision rejecting the idea — and plugged the administration’s new blueprint for lowering drug prices.
Azar likened President Trump’s economic philosophy to that of former President Ronald Reagan, who summed up the failures of the big government approach to the economy this way: “If it moves, tax it....
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