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UNBIASED Politics (2/27/25): Trump's 'Gold Card' Proposal, Supreme Court 'Reverse Discrimination' Case, WH Press Team to Control Press Pool, Trump Recruited as Russian Spy? And More.
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
Get the facts, without the spin. UNBIASED offers a clear, impartial recap of US news, including politics, elections, legal news, and more. Hosted by lawyer Jordan Berman, each episode provides a recap of current political events plus breakdowns of complex concepts—like constitutional rights, recent Supreme Court rulings, and new legislation—in an easy-to-understand way. No personal opinions, just the facts you need to stay informed on the daily news that matters. If you miss how journalism used to be, you're in the right place. In today's episode: Trump Signs Healthcare Pricing Transparency Order (0:10) White House Press Team Says It'll Take Control of Press Pool (4:54) Trump Proposes $5 Million 'Gold Card' for Investor Immigrants (8:34) Senate Passes Resolution to Revoke Biden's Oil Drilling Rule (12:09) Supreme Court Hears 'Reverse Discrimination' Case (15:23) Supreme Court Announces Cases for Upcoming April Term (19:51) Judge Expands Hold on Government Transferring Transgender Women Prisoners to Male Facilities (23:48) Supreme Court Says Trump Administration Doesn't Have to Pay $2B in Foreign Aid ... Yet (25:42) Quick Hitters: Amy Gleason Named DOGE Acting Administrator, DOGE Employees Resign, House Passes Budget Resolution, Trump Confirms Tariffs, FDA Cancels Flu Vaccine Meeting, Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial, Trump to Revoke Venezuela Oil Agreement, DoD Memo Calls for Removal of Troops With 'Gender Dysphoria' (30:05) Rumor Has It: Wisconsin's Governor Replacing "Mother" With "Inseminated Person?" Was President Trump a Russian Spy in the 80s? (37:36) Listen/Watch this episode AD-FREE on Patreon. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok. All sources for this episode can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is Trump's healthcare pricing transparency order about?
Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Thursday, February 27th. Let's talk about some news, starting with this healthcare pricing transparency order signed by the president on Monday. This order is called Making America Healthy Again by empowering patients with clear, accurate, and actionable
healthcare pricing information. Here's the thing. This order is not necessarily new because it actually builds off of a previous executive order from the president's first administration. So let's talk about it. As always, the order has a policy and then a directive. So first, it is the policy of the United States to put patients first and ensure they have the information they need to
to make well-informed healthcare decisions. The order goes on to explain that the federal government will promote universal access to clear and accurate healthcare prices and strive to improve transparency requirements.
Now, for the directive to carry out that policy, the order tasks the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor, and Secretary of Health and Human Services with implementing and enforcing healthcare price transparency regulations within 90 days. Specifically, it lays out the following actions. One,
require the disclosure of the actual prices of items and services, not estimates to issue updated guidance or proposed regulatory action, ensuring pricing information is standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans.
And three, issue guidance or proposed regulatory action updating enforcement policies designed to ensure compliance with the transparent reporting of complete, accurate, and meaningful data. Now that last action is arguably the most important because as I said in the beginning of the story, the policy set forth in this order is not actually new. Essentially this order is
is calling for a framework to be made that will enforce an executive order from Trump's first administration. The original executive order was signed June 24th, 2019. It was called Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.
And that original executive order required hospitals to maintain a consumer-friendly display of pricing information for up to 300 shoppable services. It required hospitals to maintain a machine-readable file with negotiated rates for every single service a hospital provides.
It required health plans to post their negotiated rates with providers, post their out-of-network payments to providers, and the actual prices paid for prescription drugs, and it required health plans to maintain a consumer-facing internet tool, making price information accessible.
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