After bumping his gums for a year Donny has a new healthcare plan that we all should study carefully….
President Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up. The move comes as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire, the AP reports. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts so they can handle insurance and health costs as they see fit. Democrats have rejected the idea as a paltry substitute for the tax credits that had helped lower monthly premiums for many people.
- “The government is going to pay the money directly to you,” Trump said in a video the White House released to announce the plan. “It goes to you and then you take the money and buy your own health care.”
- Trump’s plan also focuses on lowering drug prices and requiring insurers to be more upfront with the public about costs, revenues, rejected claims, and wait times for care.
- Trump has long been dogged by his lack of a comprehensive health care plan as he and Republicans have sought to unwind Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act. Trump was thwarted during his first term in trying to repeal and replace the law.
- When he ran for president in 2024, Trump said he had only “concepts of a plan” to address health care. His new proposal, short on many specifics, appeared to be the concepts of a plan, the AP notes. Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, described it to reporters on a telephone briefing as a “framework that we believe will help Congress create legislation.”
- It was not immediately clear if any lawmakers in Congress were working to introduce the president’s plan. The White House did not offer any details about how much money it envisioned being sent to consumers to shop for insurance, or whether the money would be available to all ObamaCare enrollees or just those with lower-tier bronze and catastrophic plans.
- The idea mirrors one floated among Republican senators last year. Democrats largely rejected it, saying the health savings accounts would not be enough to cover costs for most consumers. Currently, such accounts are used disproportionately by the wealthiest Americans, who have more income to fund them and a bigger incentive to lower their tax rate.
- Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said the announcement was another one of Trump’s “empty promises” on health care, the Washington Post reports. “Every American should be asking themselves a simple question: are you paying more for your health care than you were a year ago?” Wyden said. “The answer ought to tell you everything you need to know about the Trump-Republican health care agenda.”
AS with anything that Donny spews out…there is little clarity but this is just an idea that will go to Congress for their take and that is where it will get more interesting.
Since this is not very clear I will hold my reservations until the final shoe drops in Congress.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
By tomorrow, he might forget he wanted this system put in place. Then he will be surprised if it is approved by Congress and probably change his mind again.
Best wishes, Pete.
HaHaHa! You definitely have him nailed!
My thinking exactly chuq
So if he gets that health plan approved and it goes into law and becomes operable what will happen? The rabble will get their “Big” insurance checks and will immediately squander it all on a car, some booze, a vacation or some dope or some other trashy indulgence and then when they get sick they will wish they had bought insurance with it. Or when they get their big insurance allotment, all the insurance companies will average whatever each american gets and will raise their prices so as to completely gobble up every cent the citizens have been given and call the egregious price they will then charge prospective customers, “Your Share.”
John not everyone is a freeloader…..and the only ones that will make out are the health industries. chuq
Bull from a LIAR!! … “In two weeks” … 😡
Indeed! chuq
And, of course, this does absolutely nothing to deal with the actual problem, which is the skyrocketing cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and the parasites we call “insurance companies” that deny coverage and inflate costs to fill their own pockets.
The average cost of health insurance in the US right now for a family of 4 is close to $30,000 per year. There are about 84 million families in the US. 84,000,000 X 30,000 = $2,520,000,000,000. So to adequately insure every family in the US at current prices would cost two trillion, five hundred and twenty billion dollars. And that doesn’t include single people. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the student to discover the number of single adults in the country, the average cost for full health insurance, and work out that total.
Does anyone, anywhere, really believe that this poor, demented, mentally ill old man is going to give people enough money to actually pay for full health insurance? Or that the Congress, that bunch of corrupt, whining, sniveling cowards, would ever seriously consider raising taxes enough to cover that kind of cost?
Exactly GF….it is a typical GOP plan….does nothing but make the health industry more cash. chuq
sadly all it takes is two or three bad apples in that mix to mess up everything. If I had Clarence Thomas looming over me (and he is one of the best loomers I have ever seen) …
We have a barrel of bad apples….hard to pick the worse out of the bunch. chuq