What a second Trump term means for hospitals, insurers, and Medicare

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The machine chugs along

The health care industry has feasted on the public regardless of who is in the White House. It gobbles up the savings, wages, and tax dollars of patients and workers everywhere. Prices for hospitalizations, surgeries, checkups, devices, and drugs remain higher here than in the rest of the world.

This was true across every president over the past three decades — Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden — and there is no indication that will change now that Trump is back. The dread of getting a medical bill in the mail is as strong as ever.

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