Execs express dystopian view of Trump presidency's impact on healthcare

Healthcare IT News: What effects do you expect Donald Trump’s presidency to have on healthcare?

“Death, pestilence, disease, extreme poverty for the middle and lower classes,” one chief executive commented, noting such dire circumstances would occur alongside “a rise in healthcare premiums, a rise in healthcare costs, loss of healthcare entirely, non-existent benefits, record breaking profits for big pharma and big healthcare — and world economic collapse.”

That was perhaps the darkest of the anonymous responses that came in when we surveyed Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance readers but that CEO was hardly alone in taking a negative view.

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