MedPage Today October 4, 2019
Reactions to President Trump’s plans to revamp Medicare — outlined in an executive order released Thursday — split largely along partisan lines, with most medical professional societies preferring to remain on the sidelines for now.
Rob Davidson, MD, an emergency physician in Michigan and executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare & Affordable Care, blasted the rule as a “stealth con-job whose true goal is to sabotage Medicare.”
“President Trump’s executive order is nothing more than a cheap PR stunt designed to fool people and which does nothing to reduce prescription drug costs, lower premiums or protect families with preexisting conditions from getting denied healthcare by insurance corporations,” Davidson said in a press statement. “As doctors and medical professionals,...
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