He noted President Donald Trump’s executive order on price transparency and his efforts to expand insurance plan options and lower prescription drug costs. Mr. Azar also takes a side swipe at single-payer health plans, which many Democratic presidential candidates are running on in the 2020 election.
“Bringing transparency to healthcare is all about putting you in control,” Mr. Azar writes. “It’s a major contrast from proposals for a total government takeover of healthcare, which would put bureaucrats, rather than patients, in charge.”
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