Public Health

A Second Chance for American Health—and American Farmers

For 75 years, America slowly engineered whole foods out of its diet. Under the Trump Administration, it started engineering it back in.

Restoring the Promise of the MISSION Act

Veterans rely on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to provide timely, high-quality care for the injuries and illnesses they incurred in the course of military service. However, the agency routinely fails to deliver on this promise by forcing veterans to languish on waitlists for care. In response, President Trump signed the VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act into law in 2018, giving veterans the right to obtain care from providers in their own communities when the VHA could not deliver. By 2024, the MISSION Act connected 3.1 million veterans—over a third of the VHA’s veteran enrollees—with high-quality clinics and hospitals in their communities.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, the Patient | Patients First, not last (Pt V)

The patients-first focus of the Great Healthcare Plan started under the first Trump Administration. Patients-first policymakers required hospitals and health plans to publish negotiated rates, out-of-pocket estimates, and other key cost information in both machine-readable and consumer-friendly formats. Patients and their clinicians were given practical tools to compare options before care is delivered, not after the bill arrives.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, The Patient | One Size Fits Nobody (Pt III)

It’s Your MONEY: Making Your Health Dollar Work For You, The Patient | Paying People, Not Plans (Pt II)

Any reforms to the health insurance system must focus on driving increased value for patients. Increased value does not solely mean increased costs or more complicated care; instead, it is about the overall value of the health plan as determined by patients.