Tom Price, MD. Trump’s Incoming Secretary of HHS

Tom Price’s Vision – Commercial & Individualn

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• Encourage Private Exchanges for purchase of individualized products across state lines

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• Create federal Grants for States to create high-risk pools

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• Eliminate individual Mandate

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• Comprehensive Medical Liability Reform allowing conformity to clinical guidelines to serve as an affirmative defense to liability

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• Claims Transparency from insurers to employers and individuals

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• Freedom of choice for any patient to contract directly with any willing provider

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• Anti-trust Exemption for non-economically aligned physicians to negotiate collectively with insurers (except Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, FEHB, or Indian Healthcare)

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