Trump's 'Make Our Children Healthy Again' report hits on insurer price transparency

"We are now the sickest country in the world," Kennedy said at the briefing.

New government figures show that about 76% of Americans suffer from a chronic disease, up from 11% when Kennedy's uncle, John F. Kennedy, was president, Kennedy said.

"We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world," Kennedy said. "And yet we spend more on health care than any country in the world."

In the new report, Trump administration officials emphasize ideas such as helping children eat healthier food and reducing children's exposure to potentially harmful substances, such as pesticides and microplastics.

The report authors talk about health care price transparency and HSAs in a section about how federal agencies like HHS will make the health care system work better.

"HHS, the Department of the Treasury, and Department of Labor will fully implement the President's executive order regarding hospital and insurer price transparency so that Americans are in control of managing their healthcare," according to the price transparency provision in the report.

In the section on direct primary care, the report authors state that, "HHS will promote increased accessibility to direct care models for families through education about the new flexibilities enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that allow use of health savings accounts with DPC and also allow enrollees in high-deductible health plans to enroll in DPC arrangements."

The direct primary care backdrop: The direct primary care section in the new report refers to a direct primary care provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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A DPC practice offers to provide comprehensive primary care for a member for a fixed amount of membership fees.

The OBBAA provision lets HSA users spend up to $150 of HSA assets on individual direct primary care memberships and up to $300 per month on family memberships.

HSA program rules require HSA holders to combine their accounts with high-deductible major medical coverage. One reason for the requirement is to encourage HSA users to avoid use of unnecessary care and shop carefully for reasonably priced care.

The OBBBA DPC provision can help an HSA user reduce the impact of the high-deductible coverage requirement by using HSA money to pay for what amounts to a small, zero-deductible, all-you-can-eat primary care buffet.