2025 is likely to mark a major inflection point in health policy. Over the past four years, among many other changes, the nation has recovered from one pandemic. Uninsured rates hit record lows – across record enrollments medicare, medicaid,and Affordable Care Act Market;Medicare beneficiaries have begun to see savings Regarding prescription drugs; overdose deaths have decreased. And women lost their right to reproductive choice under the U.S. Constitution, leading to abortion bans in more than 20 states within three years of the Supreme Court overturn. Roev. Wade.
With Republicans now controlling the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives for the first time since December 2018, the Trump administration and the 119th Congress are in a position to implement important policies that could impact the health of all Americans. It is expected that changes will be pursued. President Trump’s first term saw his administration revisit other issues, including Medicaid work requirements, a short-term plan to replace the Affordable Care Act plan, hospital price transparency, drug imports from Canada, and Title X restrictions. or provide some indication of a policy that may be expanded. Family planning program. But his current priorities for health policy enforcement actions, in addition to reversing several Biden-era executive orders, remain unclear as of Inauguration Day.
For a variety of reasons, the priorities are uncertain even for Republicans in Congress. Republicans in Congress are already debating a wide range of proposals. and care. Other policy issues that could see action from both the White House and Congress include prescription drug prices, pharmacy benefit oversight, site-neutral payments, reproductive rights, public health, the 340B program, and research at national laboratories. Including health.
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katie keith
Katie Keith, JD, MPH provides rapid response analysis on the front lines of health issues. She is Director of the Health Policy and Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Keith is also an associate professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reform. read more
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