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Diraven

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3. This is delusional

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:58 PM

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Trump's "brilliant" idea is to get rid of the concept of health insurance altogether and go back to the days where you only get a doctor if you can afford it. The whole reason we have health insurance is because most people couldn't afford it. That's not lowering the cost of health care for anyone except the healthy and wealthy.

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And it will be shit but they'll call it a bouquet of roses. mdbl Tuesday #1

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This is delusional Diraven Tuesday #3

They'll recommend staying away from doctors and hospitals wolfie001 Tuesday #4

Well, insurance companies ready deny visits and doctor recommendations to save themselves money. OrlandoDem2 Tuesday #6

I've been on Medicare and my doc wanted to run some tests on my heart because of a 20 year-old heart murmur wolfie001 Tuesday #14

We need a public option to compete with the insurance companies that leech off of illness! OrlandoDem2 Tuesday #5

At least it will be short. Ray Bruns Tuesday #7

Nobody is saying it, but amcgrath Tuesday #8

"isn't going to be the withdrawal of ACA. It's going to be the destruction of the CDC" BumRushDaShow Tuesday #10

"a plan to lower health care costs" J_William_Ryan Tuesday #9

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