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C Moon

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27. He talks like an 8-year-old: "It's up a gazillion million quadruple percent!"

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Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:16 PM

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Trump says he's talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan [View all] BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago OP

This is all bullshit. Democrats would not like what he is proposing to do. OLDMDDEM 16 hrs ago #1

Talking AT Dems , not "to"... and definitely not "with". mpcamb 15 hrs ago #17

The subsidies Traildogbob 16 hrs ago #2

Like everything else with this fool, he has no idea how insurance actually works,... the nelm 11 hrs ago #21

That's just health interests moving piles of cash from one pocket to another. What's to cut prices??? marble falls 16 hrs ago #3

Yeah, Donny, tell us another fairy tale. DinahMoeHum 16 hrs ago #4

WTF? The ACA is working, just fund the damn thing. Does he know the coverage comes from private companies? Vinca 16 hrs ago #5

The Hill of course gab13by13 16 hrs ago #6

Cantaloupe Caligula The Corpulent Said... GB_RN 16 hrs ago #7

Yeah, right...what? TWO WEEKS like his infrastucture plan? AZ8theist 16 hrs ago #8

Something else... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #9

Every single thing popsdenver 16 hrs ago #10

What is the practical intent here? To allow people to buy higher deductible and presumably cheaper plans? LonePirate 16 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 16 hrs ago #12

How can anybody be this stupid? Wiz Imp 16 hrs ago #13

This is his "selling" of insurance privatization nationwide as a new front for attacking Medicare, ancianita 15 hrs ago #14

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

Let's not forget the rest of ACA Bluetus 15 hrs ago #16

And are these "Democrats" in the room with him now? VMA131Marine 15 hrs ago #18

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW Karma13612 14 hrs ago #19

Why can't we have what other countries have? twodogsbarking 11 hrs ago #20

Oh...like the $2k checks to Americans from the tariffs..or that he bailed out the farmers...bull crap PortTack 10 hrs ago #22

Let's not forget the Doge checks Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 5 hrs ago #33

A "direct health care payment plan" dflprincess 10 hrs ago #23

Universal Healthcare bmichaelh 8 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 8 hrs ago #25

That does nothing to control premiums. RandySF 8 hrs ago #26

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

This fucking ignorant fuck Blues Heron 8 hrs ago #28

..talked to them "about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people." Septua 7 hrs ago #29

What A Simpleton DallasNE 7 hrs ago #30

"The insurance companies are making a fortune," he said. Septua 7 hrs ago #31

He's probably lying Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 5 hrs ago #32

Why not do the sensible thing? Aussie105 4 hrs ago #34

So the genius idea is Diraven 2 hrs ago #35

How come we're hearing nothing about these talks from the Democrats? Hugin 2 hrs ago #36

Don't know if anyone said this yet Snoopy 7 25 min ago #37

As long as health insurance remains a for-profit system mdbl 6 min ago #38