The program allowed one-third of veterans to get government-paid health care in private settings. The president has another favorite overstatement related to veterans’ health care: that a June 2017 measure he signed allowed underperforming VA workers to be fired for the first time ever. That’s because it was they who first passed such protections within Obamacare — the law Trump tried initially to repeal and subsequently modified through regulatory action. Medicaid is the main source of long-term care coverage for Americans and is a guaranteed benefit, or entitlement, for eligible individuals,” she writes. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)OOF: President Trump chided HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a campaign meeting for failing to do more to address health care and drug pricing concerns.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2020 12:22 UTC