Becker's Healthcare November 8, 2024
Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Nov. 6, and 12 leaders joined Becker’s to discuss what this could mean for physicians.
Question: What does a Trump presidency mean for physicians?
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.
Jim Augustine, MD. Emergency Physician and Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio). In my time in Washington, D.C., I learned that very little of the healthcare field related to practice, oversight and payment, is under the direction of the president. The bureaucrats that oversee healthcare have a life of their own, and are not under the influence of whoever the president is. The...
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