I like the trade war and am a big fan of subsidizing local farmers rather than the neoliberal policy of exploiting low wage workers across the world. It reduces environmental damage while supporting the local economies (most of them rural and poor) at home.

I like that he got rid of the fascist individual mandate in ACA.

Right to try.

Great for nonprofit and leftist PAC fundraising and campaign job creation.

Yes.

Bumping this thread for another thing Trump did that I consider to be good. HT to Ghot, who initially posted it in the breaking news thread.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-releases-rule-requiring-hospitals-and-insurers-to-disclose-negotiated-rates.html

We still need to work on getting actual costs down, but price transparency is a start.

100% agree.

It's a start, but the large price increase on biologics due to the tariffs, the opposition to generics from canada and other imports is not going to drive costs down.
The courts blocked his attempt to get tv ads to list the price of drugs they're advertising, saying that they don't have the authority. It'll probably happen again here.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Nov 20 2019 10:37am

There's been at least one before, I think more though

There's an existing rule that hospitals have to publish their list prices, but this rule covers negotiated rates that insurers pay, and discounted rates that hospitals would be willing to accept.

Nothing much to say here.

First First man.

His simple existence is a gift to the History of ... Humorists