What Donald Trump has done with the biggest budget in Washington
In the first of a series on the president’s record, we look at HHS
IF YOUR only source of information on Donald Trump’s record on health care was his state-of-the-union address, you would conclude that the president is hellbent on three things. The first is protecting patients with pre-existing medical conditions from insurers who would like to be rid of them. The second is making sure that illegal immigrants do not have access to subsidised health care. The third is bringing down the cost of prescription drugs.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “What he did, not what he said”
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