Trump meets with top health‑care executives at Mar‑a‑Lago amid ACA repeal push

ABOUT US OUR PRODUCTS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOLLOW US CONTACT US Sea ALL TOPICS Print Display Items per page 60 REFINE YOUR SEARCH Can't find what you're looking for? Be sure to Sign in to see all available content. 1 of 1 If you don't have an account, Register here. SEARCH RESULT FOR: - Sort by: DATE IMPORTED: December 28, 2 Steve Bannon (L), senior counselor to U.S Dr. Bruce Moskowitz (R) as they arrive to a leaders at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Bea REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst SELECT USAGE CATEGORY + LIGHTBOX + CART RTX2WQOR 28 Dec. 2016 Steve Palm Beach, Bannon UNITED (L), senior STATES counselor to U.S. President-elect... Steve Bannon (L), more senior counselor to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, walks with physician Dr. Bruce Moskowitz (R) as they arrive to attend a meeting between Trump and health care leaders at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ADD ALL TO LIGHTBOX ADD ALL TO CART SYSTEM ID: RTX2WQOR IMAGE ID: RC147A924F20 SIZE: 4028PX X 2986PX FILE SIZE: 34MB Image CITY: Palm Beach COUNTRY: UNITED STATES KEYWORDS: FL PHOTOGRAPHER: Jonathan Ernst ADD TO LIGHTBOX ADD TO CART http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/USA-TRUMP--RC147A924F20.html Home About Home > Uncategorized > Trump meets with docs today as Congress preps Obamacare repeal Trump meets with docs today as Congress preps Obamacare repeal December 28th, 2016 Goto comments Leave a comment In case you’re interested, President-elect Donald Trump meets today with a a group of doctors at his Mar-a- Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. They are Dr. John H. Noseworthy, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Paul B. Rothman, dean of the medical faculty, vice president for medicine of The Johns Hopkins University and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Dr. Bruce Moskowitz; Dr. David F. Torchiana, president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare; and Dr. Toby Cosgrove, president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic has lots of patients, but a notable one is U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-10, Lycoming Twp., one of Mr. Trump’s top supporters, who has undergone kidney cancer surgery there. None of the doctors gave to Mr. Trump’s campaign and generally don’t contribute much to political campaigns if at all. When they do, they donate mostly to Democrats. Mr. Trump is also meeting with Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment, and David M. Rubenstein the co-founder of Carlyle Group. Mr. Perlumuter hardly ever gives to political campaigns either, but his wife, Laura, gave $2 million to former presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s campaign super PAC, according to The New York Times. Mr. Rubenstein gives extensively to candidates from both parties. Neither he nor Perlmutter gave to Mr. Trump. – BORYS KRAWCZENIUK Author: borys Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Bruce Moskowitz, Cleveland Clinic, David F. Torchiana, David Rubenstein, Donald Trump, Isaac Perlmutter, John H. Noseworthy, Laura Perlmutter, Marco Rubio, Mayo Clinic, Palm Beach Florida, Paul B. Rothman, Toby Cosgrove, Tom Marino Ghostery blocked comments powered by Disqus. Ted Cruz humming forget-filled tune on president-elect Donald Trump To Your Health Trump just met with superinfluential health-care executives you’ve probably never heard of By Ariana Eunjung Cha December 28 at 1:20 PM President-elect Donald Trump's meeting this month with Silicon Valley's elite made headlines for its inclusion of such big names as Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Tesla Motors's Elon Musk, and Amazon's Jeffrey P. Bezos. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) The group talked about a wide range of topics, including bringing jobs back to the United States, immigration, China, cybersecurity, taxes and technology in schools. What has been less publicized is that Trump has been holding similar meet-and-greets with other titans of industry in critical areas of the economy, including finance and network news. On Wednesday, his guests were health-care executives — many of whom represent companies or institutions that have a big stake in the outcome of Trump's ambitions to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. According to a pool report, the group, all men, met with him at 11 a.m. at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. They included John Noseworthy of the Mayo Clinic, Paul Rothman of Johns Hopkins Medicine, David Torchiana of Partners HealthCare and Toby Cosgrove of the Cleveland Clinic. Noseworthy, a neurologist who is president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, in recent years has been an articulate commentator about health-care reform on TV shows such as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC's “Meet the Press,” and “Charlie Rose.” He has argued that Obamacare was basically an expansion of insurance coverage and did not emphasize patient health enough. In an interview with The Washington Post in November, he said his office had already been in touch with Trump's transition team offering help. “We’re really talking about replace and repair, rather than repeal. But we haven’t seen a full approach yet from the administration. Personally, this is me speaking. … We’re basically optimistic we can create a better system together,” Noseworthy said. In a statement issued by his office shortly after the meeting began, Noseworthy said the invitation from Trump was to "share his perspective on the future of healthcare delivery, research and excellence" and that he was "pleased for the opportunity." Rothman is chief executive of Johns Hopkins Medicine and several years ago found himself in the awkward position of criticizing physician Ben Carson, who at the time was head of pediatric neurology for the institution, after he made disparaging remarks about same-sex marriage. Carson later apologized publicly for his “poorly chosen words.” Carson, a onetime political rival of Trump's, has been tapped to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Torchiana is chief executive of Partners HealthCare, based in Massachusetts — a state that has long been at the forefront of health-care reform. Partners operates two of the most well-regarded hospitals in the world, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospital, which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. But in recent months, Partners has been under fire from some policymakers because of what they describe as a large gap between what Partners charges and what other providers charge. Cosgrove, a heart surgeon and Vietnam veteran who is chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic, may be a candidate for the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to Bloomberg News. . Cosgrove has met with Trump several other times. He's on an advisory panel of 16 executives for the president-elect on jobs and the economy, has been spotted in Trump Tower recently and was in Palm Beach meeting with Trump last week. Cosgrove has criticized Obamacare and in September appeared on CNBC's “Squawk Box” saying that health-care providers are drowning in paperwork. “The number of quality metrics that we have to report to the government every year is just going up like crazy. We're now reporting well over 100 quality metrics on a regular basis,” he said, describing regulation paperwork as coming in seven-foot-tall stacks of 16,000 pages. Also in the meeting were Bruce Moskowitz, described as a physician in Palm Beach, and Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment. We can't explain what he was doing there. Separately, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson was expected to meet with Trump later in the day to discuss Obamacare reform, according to a pool report. Thompson served as secretary of health and human services during George W. Bush's first term. This post has been updated. 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