Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser and national co-chairman of the Donald Trump campaign, told The New York Times that the healthcare ideas Mr. Trump has offered so far are "just a starting point," and a detailed, bipartisan plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is on its way.
This is good news for Mr. Trump, whose healthcare policy has been called a "jumbled hodgepodge of old Republican ideas," and compared to "the efforts of a foreign student trying to learn health policy as a second language," by former insurance executive Robert Laszewski and health economist Thomas P. Miller respectively, who are both critics of the ACA, according to The New York Times.
Mr. Trump has been criticized for seemingly inconsistent healthcare policies and the lack of detail he provides. He has said he supports several boilerplate Republican ideas, such as allowing for interstate health insurance sales and creating health savings accounts. However, he has also supported some not-so-popular ideas for a typical GOP candidate, such as allowing Medicare to negotiate drug costs with pharmaceutical companies and allowing importation of drugs from international companies with cheaper prices.
Mr. Clovis stated that the campaign does not rely on "traditional establishment Republican people," according to the report. Rather, he has roughly six prominent healthcare policy advisers who "are not read to have their support of the Trump campaign known," according to The New York Times.
Mr. Clovis said in the interview with The New York Times that Mr. Trump's pending plan would potentially continue to cover those who gained insurance under the ACA, but, "A lot of it depends on what initiatives we can get through Congress." He also said under the plan eventually employers would stop providing healthcare policies to employees, and instead provide income for people to buy insurance on their own, according to the report.
Read more about Mr. Trump's healthcare reform ideas here.
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