Trump says he's talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan
Source: The Hill
11/17/25 8:38 AM ET
President Trump said he is talking with Democrats about a direct health care payment plan Sunday amid negotiations to tackle rising health insurance premiums. Ive had personal talks with some Democrats, Trump told reporters in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday before returning to Washington.
The president did not name the Democrats he said has been speaking to, but said he has talked to them about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. The president has touted paying money from the insurance companies directly back to Americans, and letting them purchase their own health insurance.
Trump told reporters Sunday that everyone has picked up on the idea, including Democrats. People love it, the president said. The insurance companies are making a fortune, he said. Their stock is up over a thousand percent over a short period of time. They are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, and theyre not really putting it back, certainly like they should.
The presidents comments come as the Senate grapples with how to handle rising health insurance premiums now that the government shutdown has come to a close.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5608731-trump-democrats-direct-healthcare/
That's what "subsidies" are.
Why not also raise the minimum wage to be a living wage while you're at it.
OLDMDDEM
(2,938 posts)mpcamb
(3,167 posts)Traildogbob
(12,172 posts)Only Pay for premiums. What about high deductibles and balance AFTER premiums? He said he wanted to not give money to Greedy insurance. So where will the 100s of thousands of dollars come from for surgeries and other costly procedures? Cash? What a Moran.
the nelm
(212 posts)does he? Paying premiums does not equal the supposed pooling effect of paying for actual medical expenses.
marble falls
(69,400 posts)DinahMoeHum
(23,272 posts)Vinca
(53,036 posts)And that no one is forced at gunpoint to buy their insurance from it?
gab13by13
(30,688 posts)Krasnovs plan : healthy people will drop insurance and pay bills out of pocket leaving only sick people in Krasnovs plan which will drive up premiums and make them unaffordable.
Krasnodar plan, dont get sick, if you do , die quickly.
GB_RN
(3,468 posts)Ive had personal talks with some Democrats.
The damned journalists are failing to do their goddamned jobs. They misunderstood/failed the assignment.
Were I one of those reporters, Id have said, What Democrats? House or Senate? Name them. Name them now, or well say youre lying because every time you started a tale with lines such as, Some people, Many people, some say, A guy comes up to me and says, Sir,, its been easily proven lie. EVERY time.
AZ8theist
(6,982 posts)Remember when he said "Who knew how hard health care is"???
Newsflash: The IMBECILE in the WH STILL has no clue how to fix anything other than his off shore bank accounts.
Does anybody believe for one second this moron is going to fix a system set up decades ago to enrich billionaire CEOs of health insurance companies? They'll get rid of him faster than he can shank a golf shot into the woods.
GiqueCee
(3,042 posts)... that Nipplehead is too dirt stupid to take into account is: What's the learning curve for people to learn how to manage and incorporate these direct payments into their budgets so they actually work when and where they're needed? Do these payments come with an instruction manual, or even a few helpful hints? Probably not.
Sweet Christ on a pogo stick, he is SO fucking clueless. What a waste of skin, and an insult to the color orange.
For the eleventy-seventh time, just give us the same gold-plated healthcare we already pay for, but aren't allowed to benefit from, which is what members of Congress get for working less than 6 months a year.
popsdenver
(1,039 posts)that comes out of Trump's or any Republican's mouth is one of three things.
1) Hypocrisy
2) A flagrant or blatant outright lie
3) 180 degrees from the truth, or reality.
WASF
LonePirate
(14,310 posts)How much higher does the deductible need to be before it results in a lower monthly premium?
Marie Marie
(10,733 posts)which I'm sure they will not address. Plus - individual insurance costs waaaaaay more than group insurance. These guys are idiots and all the MAGA will hear is "money coming into MY pocket - I like it!!" Another scam - giving us money to put into a health savings account which does nothing for long term, catastrophic coverage. One way or another, they are determined to drop Obamacare - replace it with anything with Trump's name on it and it will SUCK - guaranteed.
Wiz Imp
(8,176 posts)"The president has touted paying money from the insurance companies directly back to Americans, and letting them purchase their own health insurance."
So the President is going to pay back money from the insurance companies (how is he getting money from the insurance companies to pay directly to Americans?) who will then use it to purchase their own health insurance. From Where?.....those same insurance companies. How in the hell is that supposed to save anyone any money? I mean, a 5-year old could tell you why this makes absolutely no sense.
ancianita
(42,586 posts)as Medicare Advantage is currently trying to do. In the name of improving the economy (for insurers), he's providing cover for his plans to end Medicare and after that, Social Security.
It's the P2025 chipping away at corporate privatizing of the whole country.
intrepidity
(8,537 posts)He'd probably be onboard with it. All about ego with him.
Bluetus
(1,931 posts)There is no cash payment large enough to protect pre existing conditions, No lifetime caps. Children under 25 on parent's police. Etc.
There is no cash payment large enough to protect a person against the abuses of an unregulated insurance industry. Just one event could cost a person $500,000, and without ACA, they could be kicked off their policy long before the company paid out the $500,000.
VMA131Marine
(5,119 posts)How often does he talk to them.
Karma13612
(4,869 posts)Anything else which involves healthcare insurance companies is just putting lipstick on a pig.
They are the problem. Get rid of them.
Make the US government fund a proper Medicare for All. If people can ever be made to sit still for 2 seconds and have it explained to them that a tiny tax on income while eliminating all copays and premiums and deductibles is the correct sane humane thing to do. It covers every person, cradle to grave, whether you are working or starting your own business or retired or unemployed or anything you can think of. People have to get over their ridiculous Im not payin for that strangers fill in the blank procedure. People in this country will donate money to strangers who start Go Fund Me accounts for medical needs, but they cant stand the idea of just a very small tax on income.
And money from the government will go to the CARE GIVERS AND HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, where it should be all along.
Not the for-profit money hungry monstrous insurance companies. They are evil to their core.
No more denials, no more lifetime deductibles, etc. JUST CARE WHEN NEEDED.
So sick of this shite.
twodogsbarking
(16,790 posts)I think I know but I won't say.
PortTack
(35,801 posts)dflprincess
(29,086 posts)would not include insurance companies. Payments would be made to providers like a single payer plan would do.