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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
As One Of Most Regulated Industries, Health Care Cheers Trump's One-In, Two-Out Order
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to cut two regulations for every new one that they adopt, a move that could have significant implications for the Food and Drug Administration. Trump, who vowed throughout his campaign to ease the burden of government regulations in order to promote innovation, pledged at聽the signing ceremony that the order would be 鈥渢he biggest such act our country has ever seen.鈥 鈥淭here will be regulation, there will be control, but it will be normalized control,鈥 he said. (Kaplan, 1/30)
Healthcare industry stakeholders are lauding President Donald Trump's latest executive order which requires executive departments or agencies to remove at least two previously implemented regulations for every new one issued. The order could have major ramifications for healthcare, one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. economy. Providers and vendors face a myriad of rules drafted by numerous agencies and departments, including the CMS, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (Rubenfire, 1/30)
President Donald Trump's crackdown on federal regulations could take months, if not years, to implement and likely faces costly court challenges. The executive order, which Trump signed on Monday, requires that federal agencies and departments identify at least two existing federal rules that can be eliminated every time they issues a new regulation. It also seeks to dramatically limit the cost of rules, declaring that the total price tag of new final regulations combined with repealed regulations "shall be no greater than zero" in fiscal year 2017. (Restuccia, 1/30)
Meanwhile, lawmakers want to know exactly how the Food and Drug Administration will be affected by the president's hiring freeze聽鈥
Eight聽Democratic senators are pressing the White House for answers on how the federal hiring freeze will affect the Food and Drug Administration. President Donald Trump鈥檚 memo last week freezing federal hiring did open the door to exemptions for positions needed to fill 鈥減ublic safety responsibilities.鈥 But he did not define public safety 鈥 and no one seems quite sure whether the FDA falls into that category. (Kaplan, 1/30)
