US Medtech Under Trump: Below The Radar Or In The Line Of Fire?

The return of a Republican president to power in last month's US elections showed – for the second time in 2016 – that punditry can be misleading and opinion polls do not always equate with reality. With just a few weeks to President Trump's inauguration, ZS Associates' Brian Chapman gives an early appraisal of how the new administration might view the health care brief in general and the medtech industry in particular.

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Health care was not one of the US election's main talking points. Donald – President Elect – Trump was doing away with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and that was that. Little center ground or any chance to air the pros and cons. But barely two weeks after the historic vote, an outcome that yet again confounded the pollsters, here he was backtracking and apparently softening his tone.

Was this the first sign of a maturing, more collegiate approach to the next four years of US health care...

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