Trump and Kennedy Placing Patients First

Front Page Magazine ^ | September 17th 2025 | Jeff Crouere

[Jacquerie]

In 2019, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping Executive Order, 13877 that placed the needs of patients first. It called for hospitals to provide price transparency for patients. This was the type of healthcare cost reform that was needed for decades, as prices were often hidden from patients.

Unfortunately, with the advent of the administration of President Joe Biden, progress was halted on this issue. The Biden administration refused to pressure hospitals and health care plans to provide price transparency for patients.

As noted by Ilaria Santangelo, Research Director of PatientRightsAdvocate.org, under the Biden administration compliance with the regulations was “low” and “hospitals were not meaningfully penalized enough for non-compliance.”

Thus, President Trump was forced to take additional action. He followed up his initial Executive Order with a new Presidential Action on February 25, 2025.

The president’s new directive requires “the disclosure of the actual prices of items and services, not estimates.” In addition, “pricing information” must be “standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans.”

Hospitals must now attest under penalty of law that their pricing data is accurate and complete. To ensure these actions are taken, the Trump administration has created enhanced enforcement procedures. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) can issue civil fines up to $5,500 per day for non-compliant hospitals, based on bed count.

[Jacquerie]

Taking Big Med to the woodshed

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Buh buh but I thought the Demoncrats were "for the little guy", "for the people". Hmmmm?

[Jim W N]

There are so many reasons unconstitutional gov’t healthcare should be abolished.

Here is a sampling of reasons:

1) Gov’t takeover of healthcare is unconstitutional and, thus, illegal. Nowhere does the Constitution delegate power to the feds to meddle in healthcare.

2) See 1)

3) Gov’t healthcare puts your individual healthcare in the hands of distant, indifferent, and non-medial D.C. bureaucrats and politicians who of course as middlemen must be paid and, thus, increasing the cost of healthcare. The HHS bureaucracy has a budget of $1 trillion.

4) The highest quality, most affordable, and most available healthcare in the world is what we had in the voluntary cooperation DIRECTLY between doctor and patient before the gov’t muscled in in the 50’s and 60’s with its “helping hand” hand out and a hammer behind his back! As Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help’”.

5) Gov’t hammer? What hammer? Forced vaccines, forced abortions, forced treatment all by distant politicians and bureaucrats who are not medical experts and do not know you personally.

6) Gov’t agenda vs. your own personal agenda. Who cares more about your health? You? Or some distant politician and bureaucrat who doesn’t know you from Adam and frankly couldn’t care less about you personally?

7) No one cares more about your health than you. Why in the world would you take your personal healthcare and your personal choices in the self interest of your health and wellbeing out of the hands of the DIRECT relationship between you and the doctor of your choosing who knows and cares about you, and instead put your healthcare in the hands gov’t politicians and bureaucrats who don’t know you, have the power to force you to do what they want, and who have their own agenda which includes “culling” the “overpopulation” - so gov’t has a bias toward your death.

8) That is a short list. There’s more but why would anyone need more reasons? NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOV’T HEALTHCARE!!!

[GailA]

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