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Tara Bannow covers hospitals, suppliers, and insurers. You may attain Tara on Sign at tarabannow.70.

SAN FRANCISCO — At an unique yacht membership filled with a whole bunch of prime hospital and medical insurance leaders, Mehmet Oz and different Trump administration well being officers took the stage Monday to clarify and at occasions defend the well being care insurance policies which can be reshaping the viewers’s companies.  

There was wine, hors d’oeuvres, and a panoramic view of the San Francisco Bay. However the temper wasn’t completely jovial.  

Hospitals and well being insurers are staring down roughly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over the approaching decade, a historic change that may require them to rethink how they function. Earlier within the day, well being techniques’ displays on the J.P. Morgan Well being Care Convention have been extra toned down than earlier years, targeted on staying within the black moderately than increasing market share.