"We have published an open letter to president-elect Donald Trump, and we have asked him for a 15-minute meeting," says Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. "Within the first 30 days, we think there are things that he can do, and we would like to tell him what those are."
Citizens' Council for Health Freedom says it has 7 suggestions for Trump, but Brase is keeping those suggestions close to the vest for now.
CCHF has a history of working with Trump.
"We worked with him in October 2019, his team, to secure an executive order from him," says Brase.
For many voters, the economy and the border are the main issues Trump should address. Trump ran on them and persuaded enough people to believe his solutions were or are better than Vice President Kamala Harris's ideas or actions. Still, Brase says healthcare is important.
"There are so many reasons why healthcare is important and during COVID people pretty much figured that out when the public health officials decided to lock down the entire country and take away everybody's rights, and that is what healthcare can be used for by the government and we've got to stop that from ever happening again," says Brase. "It isn't like that the public officials are sitting there thinking 'we won't do this again,' they are as a matter of fact trying to make sure that they could get those rights back, so it's really important for Trump to make sure that he's secures the American people against the public health officials who would like to lock people into their homes and continue to give them injections."
One of Trump’s early actions could involve Medicare. He’s said he won’t change the eligibility age for Medicare but has said he’ll make changes to Medicaid, requiring states to implement more strict eligibility determinations.
Trump has said he’ll give Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted critic of the COVID-19 vaccines, a major role in healthcare policy.
Medicare cash crisis
For now, Brase says "Medicare is a crisis," one that is starving our country of dollars.
"It is going bankrupt, and people are expecting something to be there that won't be there," says Brase. "Whatever is there is likely going to hurt them because healthcare rationing is real."