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    Michael Hiltzik: Trump runs dry on health care ideas, promotes wellness programs known to be useless

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Oct 04, 2019 4 minutes

    The Trump administration is known for its paucity of good ideas on health care, beyond threatening to throw 20 million Americans off their coverage with the stroke of a federal appeals court's pen.

    It's chock full of bad ideas on health care, however. On Monday, Trump's health advisers unveiled another one: Promoting "wellness" programs in the individual health care markets.

    According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is managing this project, the idea is to allow up to 10 states to apply to add wellness programs to their Affordable Care Act health plans.

    This is a "demonstration project," with the goal of showing that giving incentives for people

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