I like all these provisions, especially the price transparency. Assuming others like this, Trump and any remaining candidates would be well-advised to continue to flesh out all of positions to this level of specificity. “Repeal Obamacare” has an appeal within a stump speech and these provisions will give more energy to that appeal.
Can you point to the enumerated power of Congress that allows them to force my local provider to follow such a federal mandate as price transparency.
I promise you that my next colonoscopy is only interstate commerce if you’re stretching things not meant to be thusly stretched more than my doc.
It’s all well and good until you look at the authority by which the federal government has the power to enforce mandates. And that is what price transparency is, a mandate on providers. Looked at another way, conservatives are supposed to be champions of reducing regulations on how a business operates because doing so makes doing business easier. This wouldn’t be a small regulation. It would be a huge regulation, on a group of providers already regulated to the breaking point.