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Bluetus

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16. Let's not forget the rest of ACA

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:44 PM

10 hrs ago

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.

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Trump says he's talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan [View all] BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago OP

This is all bullshit. Democrats would not like what he is proposing to do. OLDMDDEM 11 hrs ago #1

Talking AT Dems , not "to"... and definitely not "with". mpcamb 10 hrs ago #17

The subsidies Traildogbob 11 hrs ago #2

Like everything else with this fool, he has no idea how insurance actually works,... the nelm 5 hrs ago #21

That's just health interests moving piles of cash from one pocket to another. What's to cut prices??? marble falls 11 hrs ago #3

Yeah, Donny, tell us another fairy tale. DinahMoeHum 11 hrs ago #4

WTF? The ACA is working, just fund the damn thing. Does he know the coverage comes from private companies? Vinca 11 hrs ago #5

The Hill of course gab13by13 10 hrs ago #6

Cantaloupe Caligula The Corpulent Said... GB_RN 10 hrs ago #7

Yeah, right...what? TWO WEEKS like his infrastucture plan? AZ8theist 10 hrs ago #8

Something else... GiqueCee 10 hrs ago #9

Every single thing popsdenver 10 hrs ago #10

What is the practical intent here? To allow people to buy higher deductible and presumably cheaper plans? LonePirate 10 hrs ago #11

OK - what about the pre-existing condition clause and the lifetime caps. Two very very important gains in the ACA Marie Marie 10 hrs ago #12

How can anybody be this stupid? Wiz Imp 10 hrs ago #13

This is his "selling" of insurance privatization nationwide as a new front for attacking Medicare, ancianita 10 hrs ago #14

If he eventually gets around to thinking single payer is his idea intrepidity 10 hrs ago #15

Let's not forget the rest of ACA Bluetus 10 hrs ago #16

And are these "Democrats" in the room with him now? VMA131Marine 10 hrs ago #18

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW Karma13612 8 hrs ago #19

Why can't we have what other countries have? twodogsbarking 6 hrs ago #20

Oh...like the $2k checks to Americans from the tariffs..or that he bailed out the farmers...bull crap PortTack 5 hrs ago #22

Let's not forget the Doge checks Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 min ago #33

A "direct health care payment plan" dflprincess 5 hrs ago #23

Universal Healthcare bmichaelh 3 hrs ago #24

Wow, what if this could be done with afterlife? Just go to a store and buy however much afterlife we need, directly! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 2 hrs ago #25

That does nothing to control premiums. RandySF 2 hrs ago #26

He talks like an 8-year-old: "It's up a gazillion million quadruple percent!" C Moon 2 hrs ago #27

This fucking ignorant fuck Blues Heron 2 hrs ago #28

..talked to them "about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people." Septua 2 hrs ago #29

What A Simpleton DallasNE 2 hrs ago #30

"The insurance companies are making a fortune," he said. Septua 2 hrs ago #31

He's probably lying Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 13 min ago #32