Trump Says He Knows About Health Care, But Some Of His Facts Seem Alternative

In an interview with Time magazine, President Donald Trump said that "in a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care"
Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey were a pair of in-depth interviews President Donald Trump gave that included lengthy comments on health care — one with Time magazine and the other with The Economist.
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Trump's Budget Blueprint Cuts Close to Home

Charlene Crowell, Communications Deputy Director for the Center for Responsible Lending
From youth yearning for the time to have their own place, to older Americans hoping to age in place, the need to have a home is a shared concern of consumers of all ages and locales. It's where children are raised and memorable moments dwell. It's also where many people rest, reflect, and shut out the worries of the day.
Trump's Latest Executive Order Is The Greatest Threat To Obamacare So Far

Neera Tanden, President and CEO, Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
President Donald Trump just delivered two more gut punches to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in an ongoing effort to knock out President Barack Obama's legacy.
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Trump's Leadership 'Pretty Scary' When It Comes to HIV/AIDS Funding

Black America stands to be negatively impacted by President Trump's budget
President Donald Trump's proposed budget, titled, "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again", doesn't say much about HIV/AIDS funding, but what it does say could have a disproportionate impact on Black people living with the disease. Advocates worry that the budget ignores the importance of "wraparound" care—nonmedical services that increase the availability or effectiveness of HIV treatment by linking people to care, retaining them in care or supporting people so that they can stay in care or on treatment—when addressing the needs of this population.
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Trump's Surgeon General Pick Built Name Fighting HIV And Opioids In Indiana

Jerome Adams, M.D., MPH, the newly confirmed Surgeon General of the United States was formerly Indiana's State Health Commissioner.
Several weeks before President Donald Trump nominated Indiana's state health commissioner Jerome Adams to be the next U.S. surgeon general, Adams toured the Salvation Army Harbor Light detox center in Indianapolis, the only treatment facility in the state for people without insurance.
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