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... transition of power,” his administration launched in explosive chaos, with an executive order on immigration that three appellate court judges politely laughed out of court, and with the president seeking to discredit judges who rule against him. It's clear that Trump will continue to use his bully pulpit...

... previously lacked acceptance among Republican policy makers. President Trump appears to have been successful in developing a new populist form of rhetoric that Republicans can use in support of novel drug pricing reforms such as the ones his administration considered. From a policy perspective, however...

...Sara Rosenbaum; Morgan Handley; Rebecca Morris; Maria Casoni Abstract Context: The racial health equity implications of the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We focus on four key health care policy decisions made by the administration in response to the public...

...James M. Brasfield [email protected] Thompson, Frank J. , Kenneth K. Wong , and Barry G. Rabe . Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism . Washington : Brookings Institution Press , 2020 . 242 pp. $32.99 paper. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press...

..., reorganizations, funding decisions, and more. Presidents Obama and Trump employed most of these tools in an effort to shape the implementation and outcomes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during its first decade. This article focuses on the Obama and Trump administrations' use of comprehensive waivers to shape...

...Edward Alan Miller; Nicole Huberfeld; David K. Jones Abstract The Trump administration's Healthy Adult Opportunity waiver follows a long history of Republican attempts to retrench the Medicaid program through block grants and to markedly reduce federal spending while providing states...

...James A. Morone Abstract The Trump administration's effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) broke with Republican health care policies that stretch back more than six decades to the early Eisenhower administration. While Republicans have always opposed Democratic plans, once...

... by Georgia, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. Much of the waiver activity during this period focused on reinsurance programs. During the Trump administration, the most innovative waiver application was from Georgia, which sought to restructure and decentralize its individual market, moving away from...

... to affordability, benefit design, and enrollment, without increasing the federal deficit. The Trump administration has encouraged states to pursue these waivers, but the administration's haphazard approval process raises numerous questions about the malevolence and/or incompetence behind the administration's...

... care politics in the 50 states identified in previous research have largely persisted during the Trump administration. Moreover, while Republicans were unsuccessful at repealing the legislation, the administration has taken advantage of its structural deficiencies to further weaken the legislation's...

... the Obama and Trump administrations have taken advantage of a vast delegation of policy-making power. Importantly, regulatory policy making holds the potential to yield significant changes depending on the policy goals of the presidential administration. Scholars, policy makers, and the public are well...

...Stacey McMorrow Abstract For the past decade, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has successfully reduced uninsurance and improved access to and affordability of health care services for millions of Americans. But the law was weakened when the Trump administration shortened the open enrollment period...

... in the number of uninsured Americans and has encouraged delivery system innovation. However, the ACA has not been uniformly embraced, and states differ in their implementation of the law and in their individual health insurance marketplace's successfulness. Furthermore, under the Trump administration the law's...

...Sara Rosenbaum Abstract As 2017 ended, Medicaid's entitlement structure—and the funding base on which this structure rests—remained intact. During the Trump administration's first year, this largest and most unique form of US health insurance faced an existential threat under three distinct waves...

... populations; and commentaries in the final section that explore how the Affordable Care Act has addressed health equity, how repeal of the law would jeopardize equity gains, and how the political discourse and culture of the Trump administration could adversely affect health equity. Copyright © 2017 by Duke...

.... gun landscape before, during, and after the pandemic, the Trump administration's approach to the Second Amendment, and what it all means for the future of gun politics in America. MANUUNSECDRIITPETD Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law McMurtry Politics of Guns The Changing Politics of Guns...

... but not shown. The change in political support for the ACA by the incoming Trump administration, represented by both symbolic (i.e., executive order, public statements) and operational (i.e., reductions in HealthCare.gov advertising) actions, was associated with significantly lower enrollment during...

... of this history and the changing judiciary for future health reform efforts. The Trump administration has also encouraged states to consider new initiatives that seem to run afoul of federal law. Federal regulators have encouraged states to apply for state innovation waivers that may not comply with statutory...

... health insurance arrangements. The uninsured population is on the rise again, driven upward by Trump administration policies that eroded access to insurance and the economic fallout of COVID-19 that buffeted employer-sponsored insurance. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), now more than a decade old...

... and the Trump administration to repeal it, struggles over the law's implementation continue. The Trump administration not only has repeatedly argued that Obamacare is collapsing of its own weight but also has used its executive powers to reduce efforts to encourage people to sign up for ACA plans and weaken...