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Trump and healthcare. Let's talk about it.

Signed executive orders to protect people with preexisting conditions and prevent surprise medical bills. Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try an experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.

Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs. Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

Trump administration will provide H.I.V. prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years. Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

The price of prescription drugs in 2018 fell for the first time in 46 years - (looking at consumer price index by years). Signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.

Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. The administration put effort into getting generic drugs approved faster. Washington post.

He repealed the individual mandate of Obamacare, which forced people to buy expensive insurance and those who couldn't would be taxed. The mandate hurt the poor. Repealing it was a tax cut for low-income Americans. He helped them.

Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all health care providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much fewer providers charge insurance companies.