POLITICO : declared in Trump's next big idea on health care

With health care reform back on the table—and possibly up for a House vote next week—the nation's attention is turning back to just what President Donald Trump's long-term plan for fixing health care is. I chair the Zetema Project, whose mission is to foster open dialogue and debate on U.S. health care issues. If he wants a small win on health care to distract from the challenges of getting a large-scale repeal through Congress, this idea might meet that goal. This key plank of Trump's health care vision was authorized in 2010 by the very law he's trying to replace, and it remains in effect. Despite the failure to pass the American Health Care Act, Republicans have some ideas truly worth debating.

Study: Trump's hardball tactic on health care may backfire - WRCBtv.com

A hardball tactic to force congressional Democrats to negotiate on President Donald Trump's health care priorities might end up backfiring. Trump has suggested the cost-sharing subsidies could be a bargaining chip to bring Democrats to the table on health care. The impact of the premium increases would be sharper in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Obama health law, the Kaiser study found. A courthouse on the border in Texas is serving as a model for the kind of tough immigration enforcement advocated by President Donald Trump. And White House budget director Mick Mulvaney has suggested the health care payments could be tied to Democratic support for financing the president's wall on the Mexican border.


Ambulance company owners convicted in health care fraud caseA pair of brothers who own a Houston based ambulance company will each spend more than four years in federal prison after their conviction in a a government health fraud case. Kevin Olufemi Davies, 29 and Melvin Olusola Davis, 28, were sentenced for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Monday. According to their plea agreement, EMTs who were working for the brothers wrote up bogus ambulance "run sheets" even though the Medicare beneficiaries didn't need ambulance services, officials said. Kevin Davis and Melvin Davis have been in federal custody since their arrest in May 2016. As part of their guilty plea, they admitted submitting about $6 million in false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for ambulance services that were not provided, officials said.


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