Obamacare Slavitt Seeks Protection From Bipartisan To Cease Healthcare War

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Ex-Obamacare boss Andy Slavitt, tried to seek a bipartisan opening to protect the healthcare system established by the Obama administration after he stepped down last January 20 as acting administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

In an interview made by Politico, Andy Slavitt said that instead of discarding the law and returning to his rewarding career as a health entrepreneur in Minnesota, he will spend his time with hospital CEOs, governors and drug companies in repairing the law. He will stay on part-time in Washington to seek a bipartisan ceasefire in the war on health care that preserve Obamacare as much as possible even if it takes to take on more conservative legislators.

Dealing with the issues of changing the government would be a tough one especially on healthcare. Jay Angoff, a former Affordable Care Act Implementation director, said in his statement during the interview with CNBC last Tuesday that "the repealing and replacing Obamacare will be harder than the Republicans, under Donald Trump administration, can think of."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that turn the law on healthcare as Andy Slavitt steps down in his title as the acting administrator of the CMS. Obamacare supporters put on notice just hours after Trump took oath of office when he signed the executive order putting his agency heads discretion to stop Obamacare including individual mandate.

But the Trump's administration still has yet to unravel its plan of action in healthcare. The market for people to buy their own insurances will collapse if the mandate will fail or if health plans, doctors and hospitals will abandon the market place because of uncertainty.

However, Angoff said in an interview that President Donald Trump has a chance to lower the healthcare costs by using his deal-making skills to drive hard bargains with hospitals, doctors, medical equipment makers, insurers and drug companies. "But that even if negotiating in behalf of the government would be harder than in negotiating in business, still there is hope for Trump administration to do what Donald Trump is very good at, negotiating", Agoff added. Amidst from all of these, people must still obey the law and to the government who implements it.