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DallasNE

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30. What A Simpleton

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:48 PM

13 hrs ago

No mention of Medicaid or Medicare. Will he send checks to all of these beneficiaries as well? And what about all of the people who are not capable of navigating the purchase of private insurance? What you need is a marketplace = similar to the Affordable Care Act.

There is not enough time to build such a system before the end of the year. Additionally, the monthly premium is likely to exceed $2,000 per month, starting January 01, 2026. Is Trump ready to deposit $25,000 a year into people's bank accounts as they go looking for affordable insurance? The only viable option for 2026 is to extend the ACA subsidies for another year and then come back a year from now. Don't even try anything else.

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Trump says he's talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan [View all] BumRushDaShow 22 hrs ago OP

This is all bullshit. Democrats would not like what he is proposing to do. OLDMDDEM 22 hrs ago #1

Talking AT Dems , not "to"... and definitely not "with". mpcamb 21 hrs ago #17

The subsidies Traildogbob 21 hrs ago #2

Like everything else with this fool, he has no idea how insurance actually works,... the nelm 16 hrs ago #21

That's just health interests moving piles of cash from one pocket to another. What's to cut prices??? marble falls 21 hrs ago #3

Yeah, Donny, tell us another fairy tale. DinahMoeHum 21 hrs ago #4

WTF? The ACA is working, just fund the damn thing. Does he know the coverage comes from private companies? Vinca 21 hrs ago #5

The Hill of course gab13by13 21 hrs ago #6

Cantaloupe Caligula The Corpulent Said... GB_RN 21 hrs ago #7

Yeah, right...what? TWO WEEKS like his infrastucture plan? AZ8theist 21 hrs ago #8

Something else... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #9

Every single thing popsdenver 21 hrs ago #10

What is the practical intent here? To allow people to buy higher deductible and presumably cheaper plans? LonePirate 21 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 21 hrs ago #12

How can anybody be this stupid? Wiz Imp 21 hrs ago #13

This is his "selling" of insurance privatization nationwide as a new front for attacking Medicare, ancianita 21 hrs ago #14

If he eventually gets around to thinking single payer is his idea intrepidity 21 hrs ago #15

Let's not forget the rest of ACA Bluetus 21 hrs ago #16

And are these "Democrats" in the room with him now? VMA131Marine 20 hrs ago #18

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW Karma13612 19 hrs ago #19

the part I don't get is the failure to realize dingosatemyusername 4 hrs ago #39

Why can't we have what other countries have? twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #20

Oh...like the $2k checks to Americans from the tariffs..or that he bailed out the farmers...bull crap PortTack 16 hrs ago #22

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

A "direct health care payment plan" dflprincess 15 hrs ago #23

Universal Healthcare bmichaelh 14 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 13 hrs ago #25

That does nothing to control premiums. RandySF 13 hrs ago #26

He talks like an 8-year-old: "It's up a gazillion million quadruple percent!" C Moon 13 hrs ago #27

This fucking ignorant fuck Blues Heron 13 hrs ago #28

..talked to them "about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people." Septua 13 hrs ago #29

What A Simpleton DallasNE 13 hrs ago #30

"The insurance companies are making a fortune," he said. Septua 12 hrs ago #31

He's probably lying Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago #32

Why not do the sensible thing? Aussie105 9 hrs ago #34

So the genius idea is Diraven 7 hrs ago #35

How come we're hearing nothing about these talks from the Democrats? Hugin 7 hrs ago #36

Don't know if anyone said this yet Snoopy 7 5 hrs ago #37

As long as health insurance remains a for-profit system mdbl 5 hrs ago #38

Dems should refuse to meet him. Tell him to write his plan up and send it to us for review. nt Hotler 4 hrs ago #40