North Palm Beach Today

President Trump’s America-First Healthcare Plan is a testament to his commitment to American health, wealth and prosperity. The President’s vision is about lowering health care costs for Americans without sacrificing quality of care or choice.  This is a vision that we share, supported, and passed many elements of in the Florida House of Representatives. 

On the national stage, President Trump has shown time and again that he is committed to protecting the most vulnerable in our health care system with sensible and smart reforms. His actions show that he believes individuals — not government — should be in control of their health care and have access to options. This is exactly the way it should be. 

On Sept. 24, President Trump signed an executive order that calls for the end of surprise medical billing. Additionally, the Trump Administration announced that they will send prescription drug discount cards to more than 33 million seniors.  

Senior citizens aren’t the only ones benefiting from President Trump’s people-first health care policies – the Administration also proposed a rule for prescription importation that allows low-income Americans to purchase affordable insulin and Epi-Pens at nearly 10,000 federal clinics across the U.S..  

The executive order that President Trump signed was the first in American history to declare it is a policy of the federal government to protect individuals with preexisting conditions and ensure that they have access to care they can afford. 

President Trump will give Americans more flexibility in how and where they receive care by investing in telehealth and permanently expanding seniors’ access to telehealth services. The President signed the historic Right to Try legislation, giving terminally ill patients hope through the ability to try new experimental drugs. And, under the Trump Administration, the Childhood Cancer STAR Act invests $30 million a year for child cancer research. 

Because President Trump believes Americans know what is best for themselves and their families, his health care plan is devoted to ensuring Americans have freedom to choose their own insurance plans and doctors. The Trump Administration supports the use of Association Health Plans making it easier for small businesses to work together to offer lower premiums and better insurance for their employees. The use of Health Reimbursement Arrangements has been expanded under President Trump, granting employees the option to use money from their employer to buy the insurance of their choice. President Trump will improve individual’s access to direct primary care arrangements that cut out the middleman and remove red tape to enable patients to spend more quality time with their doctors. 

The mere existence of the Biden campaign’s health care plan is evidence that Obamacare was a massive mistake and failure. During the Obama-Biden presidency, drug prices rose a staggering 55 percent.  

President Trump’s tax cuts repealed Obamacare’s individual mandate, which harmed middle-class and lower-income Americans the most. Obamacare’s dreadful Independent Payment Advisory Board, an agency given the power to make life or death health spending decisions, has been dismantled. Over the next four years, President Trump will continue his drive to lower costs for American patients, starting with requiring hospitals and insurance companies to make their prices transparent. 

Joe Biden’s government-run health care proposal would ultimately kill the private health insurance that 10.4 million Floridians rely on and put our state’s rural hospitals at risk of closing under this disastrous public option plan. 

Fellow Floridians, President Trump is the only candidate who will give all Americans, even those with preexisting conditions, the freedom to choose what health care options fit their needs at an affordable price. Vote America-First on November 3 — vote for President Donald J. Trump.

– Representative Magar serves as the Speaker Pro-Tempore for the Florida House of Representatives. She serves as the Chair of the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee and is a member of the Health & Human Services Commission.