Trump’s Executive Order & Cost-Sharing Reduction
Last week, the president issued an executive order that reduced insurance restrictions in order to expand the abilities of business associations to sell insurance; he also announced that he would stop making cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers. Your advocacy team announced in an emailed statement that the ACR will be working to address both these actions on your behalf.
First, and more urgently, as Congress and the administration negotiate the terms regarding whether and how to fund the cost-sharing reduction payments, the ACR will continue to suggest that lawmakers in Congress continue to keep patient protections strong as per ACR policies. (Want to help keep these protections strong? Help the ACR strengthen its relationships on the Hill by investing in RheumPAC.)
Second, as the executive order on insurance takes form over the next year through the federal agency rulemaking process, the ACR will provide comments to the government on how best to protect our profession and patients.
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Angus Worthing, MD, FACP, FACR, chair, Government Affairs Committee, is a practicing rheumatologist in the Washington, D.C., metro area and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown University.
