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bmichaelh

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24. Universal Healthcare

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:50 PM

10 hrs ago

If one wants not to pay the greedy insurers, there is one viable solution, Medicare for All or something similar.

Trump does not know how to specific.

He talks in generalities by saying "everyone".

No, everyone is not on board with his cruelty and stupidity.

For example, I have living with lymphoma for 35 years; I am in my third remission with maintenance treatments costing $1 million/year.

How is his "plan" going to take care of that.

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Trump says he's talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan [View all] BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP

This is all bullshit. Democrats would not like what he is proposing to do. OLDMDDEM 18 hrs ago #1

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

The subsidies Traildogbob 18 hrs ago #2

Like everything else with this fool, he has no idea how insurance actually works,... the nelm 13 hrs ago #21

That's just health interests moving piles of cash from one pocket to another. What's to cut prices??? marble falls 18 hrs ago #3

Yeah, Donny, tell us another fairy tale. DinahMoeHum 18 hrs ago #4

WTF? The ACA is working, just fund the damn thing. Does he know the coverage comes from private companies? Vinca 18 hrs ago #5

The Hill of course gab13by13 18 hrs ago #6

Cantaloupe Caligula The Corpulent Said... GB_RN 17 hrs ago #7

Yeah, right...what? TWO WEEKS like his infrastucture plan? AZ8theist 17 hrs ago #8

Something else... GiqueCee 17 hrs ago #9

Every single thing popsdenver 17 hrs ago #10

What is the practical intent here? To allow people to buy higher deductible and presumably cheaper plans? LonePirate 17 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 17 hrs ago #12

How can anybody be this stupid? Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #13

This is his "selling" of insurance privatization nationwide as a new front for attacking Medicare, ancianita 17 hrs ago #14

If he eventually gets around to thinking single payer is his idea intrepidity 17 hrs ago #15

Let's not forget the rest of ACA Bluetus 17 hrs ago #16

And are these "Democrats" in the room with him now? VMA131Marine 17 hrs ago #18

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW Karma13612 15 hrs ago #19

the part I don't get is the failure to realize dingosatemyusername 57 min ago #39

Why can't we have what other countries have? twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #20

Oh...like the $2k checks to Americans from the tariffs..or that he bailed out the farmers...bull crap PortTack 12 hrs ago #22

Let's not forget the Doge checks Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago #33

A "direct health care payment plan" dflprincess 12 hrs ago #23

Universal Healthcare bmichaelh 10 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 9 hrs ago #25

That does nothing to control premiums. RandySF 9 hrs ago #26

He talks like an 8-year-old: "It's up a gazillion million quadruple percent!" C Moon 9 hrs ago #27

This fucking ignorant fuck Blues Heron 9 hrs ago #28

..talked to them "about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people." Septua 9 hrs ago #29

What A Simpleton DallasNE 9 hrs ago #30

"The insurance companies are making a fortune," he said. Septua 9 hrs ago #31

He's probably lying Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago #32

Why not do the sensible thing? Aussie105 6 hrs ago #34

So the genius idea is Diraven 3 hrs ago #35

How come we're hearing nothing about these talks from the Democrats? Hugin 3 hrs ago #36

Don't know if anyone said this yet Snoopy 7 1 hr ago #37

As long as health insurance remains a for-profit system mdbl 1 hr ago #38

Dems should refuse to meet him. Tell him to write his plan up and send it to us for review. nt Hotler 42 min ago #40