%0 Journal Article %T US Healthcare Trends and Contradictions in 2019 %A F. Randy Vogenberg %J Archive of "American Health & Drug Benefits". %D 2019 %X Over the past several years, many healthcare trends have been identified as micro rather than macro as incremental year-to-year changes dominated the US healthcare market. Looking at 2019 and toward 2020, the shift to macro-level trends returns, reflecting market transformation during the Trump administration. For example, many 2017 and 2018 trends were a continuation of micro themes, such as benefit design offerings, care delivery initiatives, contracting, or early technologies for monitoring personal health status %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6404804/