In a series of statements from his Truth Social account, President Trump is recommending that congress bypass the subsides for insurance companies and instead send the funds directly to the healthcare consumers who can negotiate with their healthcare providers.
Medical insurance should be sold nationally, across state lines. The state by state plans are inefficient. The competition and the larger poll of insureds would lower rates.
As far as the ACA COVID subsidies, President Trump should agree to a one-year extension provided federal funds for the subsidies only go to states with voter ID, same day voting laws in place. Otherwise the states can pay for it.
Big insurance won’t go for this.
“President Trump Recommends Congress Bypass Funding Health Insurance Companies and Send Funds Directly to Consumers”
Doesn’t the money Trump want to send the taxpayer, already their money?
Eliminate health insurance? Can you read?
First, we’ve always needed to separate health insurance coverage from being the responsibility of employers. It’s acts as a “golden handcuff” benefit which is really just a reduction in potential pay re-diverted to health insurance companies.
Second, increase competition so individuals can shop new plans against all others more similar to auto or home. These are not perfect industries but are better than the current health insurance model, and far better then the ACA model which requires purchase from a few major insurers who have regulatory capture full of unnecessary coverages.
Third, reform Medicare and Medicaid. Difficult as so many have paid into an entitlement which the government did not protect and invest but instead spend immediately to cover current costs. Those who have paid in should receive fair additional credits towards the coverages they were promised pre-reform, new younger individuals should be released from the old Medicare and Medicaid payment structure alongside reform, but with greater access to…
Four, a new system where taxes from a reformed system go to need-based vouchers, and only to those who meet reasonable annual requirements including physical and mental health to work below a reasonable set retirement age, drug testing and various fraud checks. No more healthy single lazy dudes or illegal immigrants given precious federal tax dollars. States and cities can vote for and pay for any additional “help”. Federal help should be a minimum in as rare a case as possible once personal wealth, family help, church and community help, and city and state help is used up. Federal vouchers for the truly needy to buy basic plans from competing insurance companies that meet basic, common sense coverage and customer satisfaction regulation.
How good can a “healthcare” system be when none of us can actually avoid our own inevitable death, even with the finest (outrageously expensive) medical care?
Healthcare is an entire industry of illusionists. Magic potions. Miracle pills.
You will live for centuries enjoying the physical mobility and sex drive of a teenager.
The healthcare hustle in DC is on-par with the Big Ag and Big Pharma hustles. Tens of billions (or much more?) of taxpayer funds get laundered by these companies and sent back to the politicians and their families and inner-circles. It’s 100% bi-partisan. Trump isn’t directly calling-out their grift, but maybe that’s coming soon. He should.
No way they do this. It would be like taking the E10 ethanol mandate away. Heads would explode.
A ruling by the supreme court that rules it as unconstitutional is the only thing that will stop the never ending debates. It has already been ruled over and over again to be an unconstitutional practice under constitutional law.
Makes what unconstitutional?
“It” is unclear in your post. Please fix.
Roberts adoptions and other ‘dealings’ with little kids prevent this. He is owned, as are all the females on the court with a few males flopping each way the wind blows.
You mean like the TWO Supreme Court rulings in the 1980s, which confirmed Sherman Clayton (15 USC chapter 1) applies to the medical monopoly? Yeah … and how many cases have been brought against medical under that existing law? We don’t need new laws — we need to enforce the ones who have. POTUS doesn’t need Congress; he just needs to tell Blondie to enforce this law — 15 USC chapter 1 — and all medical problems go away.
US health care spending in 2023 (just CMS) was 5.6 Trillion year after year. So, there are literally trillions at stake!!
medical malpractice kills like 400,000 per year. great system. if you want to die.
Confirming resistwemuch
#1 cause of death – Hospitals
#2 cause of death – Doctors
#3 Insurance Companies saying “no” to valid claims while funding tranny maiming surgeries for convicts and illegals.
Insurance companies don’t make those rules or any others. Plan sponsors make the rules. For most Americans plan sponsors are CMS or employers.
It’s gong to get much worse, they are rushing med students through school like madness
Big corporate bought out all the senior docs practices, I watched it happen around here
They left a massive shortage of docs–why? So that the two biggest healthcare plans could make more cash
No wonder they wanted a genocide.
So called health care and big pharma, the ethanol scams are all toxic. And all combined are dwarfed by the MIC.
While true, are you suggesting we not address those, or is that just a red herring. There is no way that the MIC will be addressed without reformers being mass suicided!
Need to address the entire rotten can of worms we call a government of a “free” “Republic”.
The GOP has been fine with Obamacare, they proved it when they did not overturn it years ago. I do not buy that McCains’ vote was one off. The GOP is famous to pick whoever can survive or is dying to play take the “fall” to lose critical votes.
Trump has been in power 9 months and accomplished nothing to deal with big pharma. Fauci still living his luxury gay lifestyle in retirement, highest paid civil “servant”.
The Covid scam toxic jabs profit these companies immensely. I remember when Trump bragged about “warp speed” vaccines. The whole thing is nauseating.
The Covid jabs have killed numerous of our fellow regional village community members and extended family members. Not to mention the multitude of rare conditions and premature deaths of people we know well who submitted their bodies to being jabbed.
The unabated and increased spending to continue wars that we have no strategic interest in, other than to keep the treasury pumping funds into the MIC remain ongoing.
Trump needed to have manned up, hired private security and end the largest corruption issue in our country. The MIC with their ownership donors who buy Congressmen.
The Ethanol thing is part and parcel of the Green Energy Scam. Was actually one of the first maneuvers.
I’m not going to be surprised either to find several “ranking” Republicans part of the Scam, kickbacks etc.
Farmers get scared and become complicit.
Its’ part of the green scam that is also integral in rural GOP electorates.
Everyone pays the unnecessarily higher costs of subsidizing a useless government mandate.
The waste of fuel in transporting and refining, and its’ a crap product.
But it buys loyalty votes from so called conservatives so it remains a priority.
When I actually see a for real Republican party with a few outliers, rather than what we have now, the reverse, I will be first to acknowledge.
Until then I will call out the BS every time I see it.
The ObamaCare time bomb was purposefully set by Democrats. They thought they would be in power and the crisis would lead to Government Run HealthCare One Provider like Hillary wanted years ago. Again President Trump got in the way between the Communists and us.
Exactly.
The Healthcare industry is the largest industry has ever existed. Total spending is over 10% of global GDP and the same size as the Energy industry. The heathcare industry would be more efficient, if the government gave people their money back and let COSTCO and Walmart and CVS fight it out for price and quality. Same for the energy industry!
And most moral Doctors KNOW THIS.
I pose to each new Doctor I encounter “Suppose you guys had a Menu showing the procedure and the cost…
Wouldn’t that be more fair than saying “I don’t know. The Insurance People tell me what I can charge.”
Colonoscopy : $ 300 (rather than $3000)
Skin Cream for Eczema: $ 25 (rather than $250)
etc etc.
Give me the damn Menu, please !
Imagine going to the Safeway and buying some bread, but no price tag is attached. You find out at the counter what it costs ? I don’t think so.
Back in the day, before insurance companies got involved, prices for healthcare and prescriptions were kept low for years and years at a time. Once the insurance companies got involved, the “cash price” exploded.
Amen, brother Felix, it’s all about who gets the taxpayer’s money (and the kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions the fund congressional campaigns, and personal savings accounts).
I wonder how much is pocketed by the healthcare industry and how much is kicked back to politicians.
I will continue to wonder because it’s a question that will not get answered in my lifetime, or ever.
The medical payment insurance industry is the BIGGEST reason why it is so expensive. I tried to explain how this works to a Democrat voter who doesn’t believe that an insurer wants the cost of healthcare to be high. If healthcare costs were reasonable, then we wouldn’t need insurance so much.
The same type of person out there refuses to understand the reason why China will pay the tariffs is to maintain market dominance and to prevent domestic production from happening. In my particular discussion, we were talking about PCB manufacture and assembly. If you send your design documents to China for manufacture, aren’t you sending them your technical and potentially secret and proprietary designs to China? Why wouldn’t China want this to continue.
I also commented that China sends to Chinese companies operating in the US which is why no “international shipping” labels are present on PCBs I order from China. They send the shipments to their Chinese company operating in the US and then break out the boxes into their individual orders and submit them for delivery.
These people are pretty smart but do not want to understand the facts because they conflict with leftist ideas.
Red meat for idiots.
I love my President.
I have a family of 4 with a family plan in place since pre “Affordable” Care Act crammed down by Obama. 13 years ago, we used to pay 7k annually with a 3.5k deductible. In 2025, we pay 36k plus a 3.5k deductible. This doesn’t cover dental or vision. We typically spend 45-50k annually on our medical expenses. We’re lucky to have the household income to cover these expenses. There’s so many reasons why this is wrong, but the biggest one is if you’re following your entrepreneurial passion, it’s much easier if you don’t have children. Health costs, rent costs, mortgage costs, daycare costs, educational costs, taxes, etc…. are all anti family.
Pelowsi said we have to pass the act before we know whats in it.
She is scum on par with obama.
And the GOP scum ran on ending Obamacare for years and then failed to do so with the house, senate and presidency. They never had any intention to do so.
Tundra, that’s not totally true. They did run it, you are right. When they DID have the votes, one of the most corrupt, grifting senators even—the piece of shit—McCain was the 60th and last vote needed. That piece of shit was so corrupt—and vengeful—that he voted no! He wanted the gravy train for his buddies to keep running and mostly didn’t want Trump to get a big win!
That vision of watching McCain strut around,
then giving the thumbs down
is forever etched in my mind.
He even got up from his death bed ,so to speak , to cast that no vote! Spit
with a band-aid on his forehead….weird.
Thank the corruption of Phoenix. All important positions Controlled by the Cartels out of Mexico.
Yes. Whatever happened to Liz Harris? Who got ousted by the corrupt Rs in AZ legislature when she was exposing this?
Read, and then reread SpurrierFan’s comment.
It was addressed, and the Democrats drug McCain out of the hospital to vote against Trump who he hated.
McCain got away with the ABSCAM thing.
He owed big time.
He paid.
POS
McShame also got away with his super carrier, USS Forestal deadly bombing thing.
Speaker Scum’s Bill was a Scam, not an Act.
The Affordable Care Act is not Healthcare, nor is it Affordable.
The ACA is an unaffordable health Insurance Scam that doesn’t provide medical Health at all.
It only fattens the profits of Big Insurance and Hosp Corps.
Vote down this ACA monstrosity., aka, Obomascare..
What doesn’t reconcile are the Dem motives……How can they be in bed with Big Insurance ….but at the same time want single payer? We are missing something here…any guesses?
Your error is in thinking Dems want single payer. That is a progressive demand ignored by what they call a uniparty.
Ask K $treet.
“She is scum on par with obama.”
worse
women are much more cut throat than men why do you think the left is pushing them into politics so fast….
You are oh so correct!
Women “bosom their cards” so to speak.
You might have a woman totally against you on policy, but she’ll smile as she poisons your scotch or coffee, or both.
Difference is, she would have sold out or helped America — either way, as long as she gets uber-wealthy. …where BO actually wanted to “transform” (destroy) us.
However, Pelosi knew what was in it….
The only ones that mattered at the time knew exactly what was in it,the others were too busy pretending they did.
What would you call the general California public who continually voted Pelosi in for the last 40 years?
If you went to doctors and paid it all yourself would you come close to $50k? Can you imagine just paying for it? I’ll bet you would be ahead. Doctors often discount when there is no insurance. Think about it.
Wife and I were talking just the other day about possibly not getting insurance and self insuring. It’s a gamble, if something major happens. But otherwise, we most likely wouldn’t come close to spending $30K in a yr on healthcare.
look into medishare or other medial Co-ops.
Back in the day when I was a kid, 1st grade or so, I was staying weekend with my Grandmother who could not drive. We were baking pot pies in the oven when I got ahead of myself and dumped hot pie on my hand. Needless to say it called for a doctors attention. Grandmother called her doc who delivered my mother and me and he drove out to the house to treat my burns.
Those were the days of compassionate care …..we always paid out of pocket ….it was within reason. Being a doctor was actually a calling instead of a lucrative career. ….Just think if people had the disposable income that they shell out for healthcare and how it could affect personal lives as well as the economy.
Guess I would say dr. D it depends on your age. When I was first married and up until my mid 50’s would go years in between Dr. visits.
True. Had a GP for many years that would charge his existing patients who had any lapse in coverage, only $10-20 for appointments.
Long ago, I had a doctor who gave a cash discount! The cash went straight into his pocket. Better have exact change!
I got 20% knocked off a dental bill just because i asked for a discount and paid cash. No dental insurance. That amounted to an over $300 discount. The worst the doctor can do is say “no”, so I always ask.
Many dentists don’t take insurance but discount for cash vs credit card the percentage of the credit card service fee they used to absorb.
The trade off is getting close. The expenses are deductible which helps. It’s the catastrophic risk I’m looking to cover. Our kids are 20, so when they drop off in 3-5years, our grandfathered plan will go away.
I put those numbers out there because I don’t think people who work for bigger organizations often understand how expensive health insurance has become.
Don’t quite get the “song and dance” scam between doctors , hospitals and what they bill Insurance and what insurance actually pays….a fraction of the cost. Are we supposed to be fooled?
longterm care insurance is now cheaper than “health insurance.”
And to think our representative can sit up there in DC..when they’re not on vacation… and know of this rip off and do nothing. Not to mention the fallacy of “consumer protections” which we have none.
What is a lifetime maximum that the insurance company will pay?
What is the cumulative expense that you have paid just in 13 years?
You will pay more in premiums than the insurance company will pay in your lifetime at that rate. Self insurance is clearly the only long term viable option.
But, the providers charge $30,000 for a standard ER visit…and when you show the insurance card, they write it down to $1200 insurance + $800 to you ($2000 total). So, where did the $28,000 upcharge that got wiped out come from?
GRAFT.
My 310k stay in the ICU was settled for 93k.
COVID
Illusion of a good deal for the patient.
Well, that’s pretty much the case for any insurance. It’s not a bank account that you draw from. The purpose is to manage risk. You pay for the management.
On purpose.
Previous car wagons were affordable. A large family has 2 choices: van or suburban.
It is all anti-family! My sister in law was approached by her OB Rn right after the delivery of her second child so they can discuss sterilization or contraception. Why only 2 kids? Because the UN said so. The Global state says less kids, and we must follow.
Only PDJT stands in the way. And maybe Orban, Fico, Millei.
Removing the insurance companies to only catastrophic coverage, would free people to have a choice. It would drive prices down and hopefully eliminate the layers of bureaucracy present in health care. Big gov mirrored itself, via obummer, in the healthcare systems. It is so thick with middle managers and C suite people who do nothing but count beans. The system needs an enema to eliminate redundancy.
Dude, that is a lot. I had a community share plan for the family of 5 earlier this year, it was $650 per month and $7500 family max deductible. Luckily I got a job and it covers full premium now. But if your family is healthy you should not be paying that much.
35k a year for the wife and myself,just got the notice Aetna is no longer writing individual policies as of Jan 1st.
Better change your living habits. Those figures are obscene.
It doesn’t have anything to do with living habits. You still pay the enormous premiums even if you’re healthy. Our premiums are increasing by 35% starting Jan 1.
I pegged the economy as not family friendly back in 1986. It was readily apparent that, one way or another, the World Economic Forum and similar ilk didn’t like us having children. The big push for LGBTQ is another pathway to childless future as is the War Between the Sexes that has been ginned up the past few years to the point that our birth rate isn’t at replacement any more.
…and when you reach your Golden years, look out! It’s gonna take all your Gold, and then some……………………………
I’m old enough to remember when the Republicans campaigned on removing/replacing obamma care if the voters gave them the House, Senate, and Presidency. Then Trump won and the RINOS couldn’t get it done.
Aha. TDS Patient zero… John McCain
Murkowski and Collins voted “no” ahead of McCain to set up those theatrics. Don’t let them off the hook.
Didn’t matter, we had 60 if McCain would’ve voted like he campaigned he would.
Hopefully we in Maine can get rid of Collins next year!
You forgot to add his title, POS John McCain.
I hated that SOB, still do.
they didnt want to get it done.
I don’t think collapsing the ACA is necessarily the real goal here (though it’d be nice). A shocking number of senators are mysteriously opposed to the nuclear option, and given that they have no spines or morals, the question becomes which of the major industry groups are lobbying republican senators (maybe on behalf of the Dems?) against the nuclear option?
I think this is a ‘flex’, albeit one that fires shots across multiple bows.
The filibuster cloture vote is how the Reoublicans make money.
Their business model is to be in the minority and sell their votes (sell defeat) so that Democrats can get to 60 and the Unipary claims bipartisanship.
Get rid of that and a big reason for being a Republican congress critter goes away.
100% right, the senate critters won’t/can’t self police, any more than Willie Sutton (the original Slick Willie!) would stop robbing banks. But he would have if the money wasn’t there.
Getting rid of the filibuster is a ‘uuuge’ priority for PDT, much more so than sticking fingers in Obummer’s eye. Maybe this is a way of encouraging the senate paymasters (lobbyists) to tell their servants to vote to remove it.
By God, now we’re talkin! Get ’em Mr. President!
Show the whole wide world what they are, these people making our laws, making deals and selling us, we the people, down the river for their own personal gain…
…Pretending to be for our country while racking up tens of trillions in debt in order to destroy our country and have what they view as the rabble in chains or dead.
Working hard the jackals are, to bring Her down, gutting the Constitution in order to enslave our countrymen in accordance with the new world order plan for us to own nothing, to have nothing, to live without hope in abject poverty.
Expose them all, Mr. President, Sir!
Give them hell as they have delivered it upon us, the backbone of this nation!
I will sleep much better tonight having got that off my chest.
If we don’t succeed in taking our back we’ll lose Her, becoming a vassal state under a tyrannical regime housed in a foreign land half way round the world. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
There’s no hope for this corrupted country, just a matter of time
Your opinion is noted Eyore. You wanna just lay down and let them roll over us?
“It’s my birthday.”
the country will survive. the government must fall.
Tokyo Rose speaks!
Leash the cash cow; changes in the sacred cow (hosp/drs) are sure to follow.
This is what I’ve been saying. Sitting right there in front of us. 4 Trillion dollars in health care, and We the People give it to the insurance companies first, and “trust” them to make sure those dollars are used in the most efficient way to give us good health care.
Top lobbyists: health insurance, large hospital systems, pharma.
Patients are dying from lack of health care, and overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of health care
physicians and nurses have been relegated to slaves. The computerized record, once useful, is now a yoke of slavery to health care physicians to force us to make insurance companies and health care systems money.
I can’t wait to watch this unfold: We the people ought to be screaming for this, but the pushback will be immense.
Democrats and RINOs will be wailing — what about the wimmen and wittle children, the poor, the elderly, the homeless? But it will be empty wailing.
All I know is the hospital bills $300,000 and they get $10,000 from Medicare.
My hubs hip replacement was $87000, his brother’s triple bypass was $770000
Most of us have heard about the method for corralling hogs. First pile food in the middle of a field. The hogs flock to the free food. Every day, add more food and, while the hogs feast, add a section of fencing around the food. The hogs keep coming until the day that the final section of fence is installed. And like that, the hogs are corralled and there is no further need to add food.
And so it is with people and their government. The people are conditioned by their government over time to accept the most outrageous treatment. We are corralled, but the smart hogs may soon realize that they have the power to break down the flimsy fencing, freeing themselves.
In the 1960s and especially into the 1970s rose medical malpractice suits. Like most abuses, a kernel of truth (doctors do make egregious mistakes and shouldn’t just act with impunity) drove a storm of suits and in turn insurance agencies quickly developed insurance so that doctors could practice without going under the first time someone had enough resources to conduct lawfare against them.
All insurance controls cost by limitation of exposure to risk; so from that moment on medicine stopped being about making a patient better and started being about doing what the insurer demanded to keep being protected. The only shield against a shark frenzy of lawyers is the insurance, and the insurance lives or dies based on managed risk. This is all mathematical and reasonable and entirely predictable but deadly to any attempt to make people better.
Pressuring on the other side are ever increasing benefits to the elderly, to the infirm, to the poor, all with capped cost; so as the risks increase and insurance demands limitation of risk, there’s also caps on gross income — so the *only* way to stay alive is to stop trying to treat people and instead develop protocols. Protocols are a standard and legal defense, so limit risk; and the more complicated the protocol, the more procedures can be punched through billing caps to make money.
This is the situation we live in, and in more regimented countries like Canada and UK, die in as the ROI on helping you perish is increasingly better than even the slow grind of endless procedures (queue COVID-19, Remdesivir, and euthanasia).
Providing $ to patients is OK but misses the vital point. IMO one must strike at the heart of the hydra and quash the trial lawyers; and this is done by providing limited immunity to doctors so the burden is on the plaintiff to prove harm, burden of proof on plaintiff, costs borne by losing party, and legal penalties to lawyers to file bad lawsuits.
Until then the ravenous swarms of gimmes looking for a payout, and shark lawyers looking for easy settlement wins, cripple any attempt at real reform.
Your right about all the lawsuits and over valued settlements, it’s going on in every sector of everything, the lawyers have been allowed to get away with highway robbery. All comes back around to money lost out of all the peoples pockets is the end result.
It’s the political and justice system’s fault for using no common sense, if given the choice, they’re not going to police themselves.
There are no ethical standards being used that make any sense is the problem.
It’s like watching congress in-charge of setting their own salary, they will not ethically do it.
There needs to be some missing and or unused checks and balances being used and put in place.
It’s not very surprising either that layers have been getting away with highway robbery, seeing as how almost all members of congress are lawyers themselves.
Cases are brought. Evidence is found. The juries decide the cases.
Cases are created, evidence is manufactured, juries are selected to the lowest common denominator, the lawyers get rich off the ever increasing premiums of others to cover their manipulation of the system. It’s incestuous, with lawyers creating the rules so lawyers can manipulate the rules so lawyers can judge the manipulation of the rules.
And the patient is no longer the customer, so they are never asked what they want.
Two decisions with the greatest impact on my life were made while I was unconscious. No my injury was not life threatening, just life altering.
Considering the DEI physicians medical schools are putting out today I don’t think limited immunity is the answer. Also consider the number of Visa physicians they are bringing into the country. How many of these foreign physicians even understand English?
Limited immunity just takes us down the path of where the pharma companies are at today. Total scammers without regard for the life of Americans.
It is not easy to prove malpractice, or get a lawyer to take your case like the TV commercials make it seem. I am not in favor of giving doctors limited immunity. I sure as heck wasn’t in favor of giving Pfizer immunity either.
Correct, one actually turned my case down and told me to my face ” the most I’ve ever gotten for that type of injury was 450k so it’s not worth my time “. No lawyer would touch the surgical group.
Two words…Tort…Reform.
Loser pays.
That’s an amazing suggestion there, hopefully it’s more sincere than, “You’d be in jail”, “Lock her up!” and “but they’re good people”.
How’d that last quote get in there?
No way could President Trump order the USDA and FDA to stop poisoning us.
I think he’s coming around. There was a big pharma rep up on the podium at last big pharma show they put on stating that people should only buy our name brand and not generic. Trump was quick to question him, and asked him, why not. The guy said, they use different ingredients in them that are not FDA approved. Trump didn’t have a happy look on his face. At least I hope he’s coming around to his senses, because he’s being played.
In my experience, the generics half work or the binders make a body feel unwell. The name brand stuff is a thousand dollars without “proper” insurance. I didn’t start “L-I-V-I-N’ (sorry for the Dazed and Confused reference) until I started eating less poison. That means all forms of Doctor Dope.
Now that I “eat to live, not live to eat” I feel like I’m 27 at nearly 47 instead of pushing a hard 67 mentally and physically at 37 years old. Go Figure.
My experience as well. I didn’t start feeling really good until after stopped going to the doctors office, been years now since I’ve consulted a doctor for anything. I read up extensively on any issues that may arise and then some, preemptively treat my self with all natural 100 year old plus remedies, make sure I get my exercise in at least 3 to 5 days a week. I’m 60 and don’t look it, have zero health problem. No vaccines for over 20 years, never get sick.
Bingo.
Same here. And it was actually due to dramatically rising and unaffordable healthcare costs that I chose to look into alternatives, after years of being conventional and compliant. I chose to limit risk and be proactive. Surprise, surprise: I am 63, regularly mistaken for being 15-20 years younger, disgustingly healthy, take no pharmaceuticals, no vaccines, while all of my peers have this thing or that thing going wrong. Which I’m very sad about. I would otherwise wish we could all grow old together, enjoying these years, enjoying our grandchildren or retirement or second careers. I spend quite a bit of time helping out with friends and family who are having procedures or need care. It’s a weird feeling and, as I said, it makes me very sad. It’s so clear to me we have been lied to, misled, for someone else’s profit. Drag it out as long as possible, get the maximum suffering and $ out of us before we are snuffed out.
Igualamente!!! Gracias Dios!!!
Awesome. 1978 was the Last time I had a physical by a American doctor. 1968 was the last time I took a vaccine. Hong Kong flu. I excerize….keep hydrated….eat healthy. I make sure I receive 20 minutes of sunshine daily….or equivalent. Deep belief in God. Prayer!
77 and very healthy. Looking forward to 20 more happy years. Gracias Dios!
Viva México.
It is true that the more you invest in good food (which is, for the most part food in the same form in which it was created) and good physical activity (work), the less you will “need” health care and drugs. But there comes a time in everyone’s life when we need it.
The costs and methods of pricing in health care for drugs as well as everything else are criminal. Especially when the rest of the world is paying 1/10 for many of the same drugs and services.
Expose, sunlight, expose, point fingers at the individual people and companies making the decisions.
The more “needed” the health care product is: antibiotics, blood thinners, respiratory medications, diabetic medications, surgery, hospitalization.
The more wanted the product is – weight loss (weight loss drugs and procedures) , cosmetic surgery, feel good (hormones, narcotics, benzodiazepines) — the more the insurance company can refuse and people will pay cash.
See there you go making sense.
I’ve heard multiple pharmacists & Drs admit that generics are allowed to be “up to 30% less effective”.
Better option– avoid ALL Pharma poison.
What kind of negative statement is that. This is a government of We the People. We have the power. We cannot act until we believe we are being robbed.
This POTUS had done more to expose corruption by being real and stating the obvious, then following up with it. Exposing the grift, not just in principle, but identifying the actual culprits.
Sure its wrong to kill an insurance company executive, or a cheating doctor. But what the collective medical mob is doing is crippling the country, and ruining the lives of individuals and families. We have to choose between starving our family or having health care; employers can’t afford health insurance and stay in business.
Our healthcare system is both robbing Americans and killing them at the same time as giving away money. That is becuase Medicare is the biggest business in the world, funded by U.S. tax payers and nobody is being held accountable.
Healthcare dollars are like monopoly money compared to even the bloated U.S. economy, and it is mostly due to the fact that the insurance companies have all the profit making power.
Doc, I am sure there are some of yall out there that really do care. But I have not been able to access anyone who cant wait to get me out of their sight since at least 2008. The food that we can afford sucks.
How would you like me to look at this?
Next we can look at how the FED subsidizes banks from 2008 on and continues to even though they are flush with cash while letting savors get nothing for their effort to put money back. Yes, another big problem “they” will do nothing about.
health insurance is garbage. it costs an arm and leg and provides nothing. dump insurance and get a health sharing plan for catastrophe. save the money you would have spent on insurance for the times you do need to pay for health care service. you will save 10s of thousands.
What’s a health sharing plan, and why is it available when all else appears to be illegal?
whole lotta buttholes puckering up there at the insurance lobby/congressional orgy
But the group plans have potential to reduce rates by spreading risk.
Buying health insurance as an individual costs more, and high-risk individuals are more likely to be denied coverage.
Sounds like yet another burst of Trump bluster.
The most important thing is to keep everyone distracted with the theater as the managed decline of the US continues.
Because the fact is that the decline cannot be stopped, let alone reversed, and the “healthcare” (predatory sick care) situation is just one of many symptoms.
The money needs to be tagged somehow for use only for medical. Otherwise people will spend it elsewhere.
That why it will be put into HSAs (Health Spending accounts).
I would be very OK with this, provided the HSAs can be rolled over, invested, tapped into for retirement one day, if one is a low user of the system and makes it to a certain age, or are inheritable. It shouldn’t be use or lose. Just as healthcare costs are so high now that people don’t have spare $ to save for retirement or to buy a house or education, how ridiculous would it be to amass a (today’s dollars) $500K HSA while not having any other assets? I would not mind having an HSA if I could use it to buy organic food or herbal medicine supplements, or acupuncture, or any kind of health-promoting activity. Currently, I am fortunate to have employer-paid health insurance (which certainly is factored in and lowers my salary, but nothing out of pocket towards it) which I do not use. It really is just there for catastrophic reasons, in my mind.
HSA would be a yearly amount based on yearly income.(Poor would receive more)
Money not spent would become yours if not spent. (Non-taxable income)
Only Taxpayers using Social Security and filing Income Tax would qualify.
So it will be mandatory one carries medical insurance? Who is going to talk providers and hospitals off the ledge?
Why can’t employers provide medical like they used to and take care of 95% of the working age people? They have larger groups of people and can get discounts individuals cannot get.
I’ll just bet that the health plans that DJT has begun will be so much bigger and better than what we can imagine.
He knows the situation that the world is in.
He is pulling strings one at a time to destroy the bad players.
Our children will not have the same health woes as we have.
Use your imagination, outside of the Rx box.
Healing and good health should be our heritage. God bless us all.
Good leadership offers good solutions. Unfortunately, our Congress is inherently corrupt and self serving. This is not working.
President Trump is working hard for the American people, unfortunately his efforts seem to be stopping before they arrive at our doors.
THERE YOU GO MR PRESIDENT!!! THIS is what we voted for you to do!!!
Scatus Robert’s will rule you can’t give ‘TAX money to citizen Taxpayers’…Only Preezy gets to do something like that….
The problem is that this is not a practical proposal. How do individuals expect to fight high hospital bills? I tried it, it is hard to go against an army of lawyers.
The healthcare workers who really know how to provide healthcare will show up. We have to cut the grifters out.
If employers stop paying money to insurance companies, if patients stop paying money to insurance companies, if the government stops paying money to insurance companies, the insurance companies can’t deliver health care but the providers can.
Look at an ER bill of $30,000 that insurance pays $1200 on and you pay $800 and call that fair play. Why is there a $28,000 write-off of the original billed amount with no further payments made?
The problem with sending cash is that many low information people will not use it for healthcare. I think they will waste it and end up in the emergency room for treatment when needed, without being able to pay of course.
You can only access it for Healthcare with an approved provider.
Receipts required!
How about NO – NO SUBSIDIES. How about crash Obamacare – ACA! How about stop making companies pay to generate and send 1095C’s every year that no one uses but costs a buttload of money to create!
Obamacare was always about the insurance companies which is why they backed it. It’s nothing but a farce.
What do you do with those people who get credits and are currently being treated for a serious illness….lots of ins and outs to this.
Set up a national HSA “Lock Box” with contribution maximums based on a percentage of adjusted gross income. Maybe 5%. So if you make $100 K per year, you can contribute and write off $5 K off your taxes. If you make $10 MM per year, you can contribute and write of $500 K off your taxes. Let the money accumulate as a pool the way social security used to. If you need to visit a doctor for a minor illness or injury, you pay them with your federal HSA debit card. If you have a serious illness or injury that wipes out your HSA balance, the federal HSA pool kicks in and pays the provider a percentage of whatever is left over, based on the percentage of the maximum HSA contributions that you paid into the pool for the prior year. So if you maxed out your HSA at 5% of your income, the federal pool picks up 100% of the balance. If you have income but choose to pay nothing into the federal HSA pool, you get nothing . If you have no income and pay nothing into the pool, you’ll get whatever you get from medicaid now.
How long until CONgress steals it from us as in social security and various retirement plnas?
One problem with writing expenses off on taxes is that the majority gets the standard deduction and cannot write anything off.– esp since the happy doubling of the deduction and removal of “marriage penalty.”
I’m going to assume there would be a restriction as to how that money could be spent; otherwise, Democrats will blame Trump and Republicans when their constituents use the money for cruises and trips to Disneyland.
President Trump has a great idea but it will never fly. What do you think the income tax people figured out a withholding system from your paycheck? They get to collect the interest on the money and know if they did not withhold the money, at least half wouldn’t pay their taxes. They want to be the only ones who can deny anything! With all the resources in America, why are we not all rich like in Dubai in the UAE?
Health care needs to be much simpler, and need not be this complex. It is complex because, as Sundance has pointed out, silos enable dark places to hide information, steal, and do bad things under the cover of secrecy. Sunlight is the antidote.
After the Flexner report and decisions were made to build health care actions on good science, specialties developed. Allopathy (MD) rose to the top over osteopathy (DO), Homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, and others. Insurance and government insurance led to governing bodies (FDA) who determined which treatments and drugs were scientifically sound.
Specialists arose: surgeons, internists/vs pediatrics, then supspecialists: cardiology, pulmonology, oncology, gastroenterology, urology, proctology, nephrology, dermatology, Otolaryngology (ENT), Endocrinology.
For primary care we couldn’t get the pediatricians and internists out in the rural areas.
Then in 1968 the specialty of family practice was designated: 4 years after med school of additional education but still focused on being a generalist. Care for 80-90% of problems, coordinate the rest, have continuity, know the whole patient and family, see the patient in the office, home, hospital, ER, deliver babies, care for kids, cradle to grave.
A knowledgable physician who walks with the patient through all the health care settings, who earns trust of the patient and family through the lifespan, lives in the community, knows the patient in their own community settingl — is a powerful advocate for a patient.
The most powerful advocate for us , however is an educated wise patient, who is a good steward of his/her own health, and has the power to purchase and pay for and make decisions on what they need. A primary care doc, especially a family doc, is the best advocate for a patient to make good common sense decisions about their health.
I answered the call to be a Family Doc. As I taught medical students I told them, “Family Medicine is the Navy SEALs of medicine”.
In the 90’s I went to a small town, delivered babies, saw my patients in the office, in the ER, at home, in the nursing home. I was able to do it and make all the games and coach a little for my kids. We were powerful advocates at the ground level in the trenches with our patitients. We were first to see when the “science” was bad or a lie. We had the power to direct care in the hospital, in the communty. Advocating for patients.
Empowered primary physicians are a threat to the grifting of the medical industrial complex, and they have all but neutered us. Primary Care is almost non viable. By design.
so much more to write. I hope this is the beginning. It will be a battle.
There are Trillions at stake.
Bless you!
My GP has retained his independent practice even though the system does it’s best to put him out of business!
Me too!
What is the number one greatest fear/concern among humans? Death.
What does the medical profession make as its primary mission? Delay of death.
Imagine the business plans to be cooked up by the non-theistic MBAs. How many ways can capital be deployed to create a herding facility that drives the people into inescapable corrals to forever then be milked of their productivity in return for routine services delivered by the medical profession?
Stroke that fear of death, mark up all expenses to bankruptcy intensity, and then offer the protection racket of insurance to avoid bankruptcy.
Fraudulent, corrupt in the most mafioso sense of the word.
Don’t forget: insurance companies DENY claims, even 100% legitimate, straight-forward ones. It’s the process of denial that earns profit by avoidance of expenses. That is 100% premeditated criminality.
Sorry to bring this up, but it needs to be part of the health care conversation. Many Americans have unrealistic expectations concerning health care. Especially geriatric end of life care. Some refuse to accept the limitations of human mortality and expect others to participate in the delusions at great cost.
I came to this conclusion after being involved in 5 hospice end of life events in a short time frame. The levels of denial were astonishing, all kept pretending there was some pill or procedure as fountain of youth. I have made my own personal decisions with the above in mind.
Obama’s un-Affordable, no care for citizens, Care Act was always a process to funnel trillions of dollars to insurance companies so they could funnel it back to democrat politicians while forcing the country into a Socialized Health Care System. The only way health care in America can be saved is for the un-affordable care act to be totally repealed and the following be made law:
1 – individuals and employers can buy health insurance from any entity they choose
2 – nobody is required to buy health insurance
3 – no state or local government can require any coverages be included or require minimum coverage levels
4 – all health care providers must provide the cost of all care proposed to patients/customers upon request
5 – elimination of the PBM system for pharmaceuticals and allow individuals to purchase what they need directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers
6 – require Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate directly with pharma to get the lowest drug costs for consumers
How about Congress passing laws where insurance companies can’t rake in hundreds of billions in profits while denying coverage for people paying premiums ?
Get rid of Osama care and make insurance what it’s supposed to be.
Get a job and stop all handouts to people here illegally and those who do absolutely nothing to contribute ?
Health insurance is not a right to anyone and handing big bucks to politicians should be illegal and I’d bet there already is illegal aspects to that.
When Rand Paul said Tariffs are a tax on the citizenry and illegal, my first thought was the ACA that required purchase of health insurance…which feels like a tax to me. Perhaps Trump is implying the similarity between the two court cases brought to the SCOTUS.
They repealed the tax portion a ways back. I don’t think there is any way to enforce the “mandatory insurance” now.
Great explanation video…
https://x.com/DKH013/status/1987203304997462238
I’m sorry but I really can’t help but laugh – this man, this fantastic President of the United States, now has the Democrats defending big-money insurance companies against the little guys, the moms and pops and children whom they claimed to care about.
This is just too perfect!
I L:ove this man who had the audacity to enter our world on that golden escalator.
With these subsidies they should include in the bill a repeal of the Obamacare mandates. Make health insurance like Geico, only pay for what you need
“What Democrats Don’t Want YOU to Know: DAMNING Post Explaining How Obamacare Really ‘Works’ a MUST-Read”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/11/09/post-explains-how-obamacare-really-works-n2421440
I like this option.
Many medical practices have two rate scales …. a scale for patient cash payments that charges for services ONLY and another scale where they have to ADD in the overhead added by Health Insurance Companies and US Government if on Medicare (which is required if 65 or older).
Some form of HSA Account for patients to draw upon, to DIRECTLY PAY MEDICAL BILLS, would be an interesting option for than just those on Obamacare. The trick will be how to cover procedures beyond basic and non-surgical coverage.
millions of sr citizens r w/o healthcare insurance because they r penalized for having gaps in healthcare insurance, thus if they can’t pay the applied penalties, they can’t get health ins / medicare. It’s a marxist / socialist form of healthcare and one that has no business in our Republic. Millions of dollars from ssa/medicare payouts that should b going to sr. citizens r being withheld, thx to barry soetoro and john robert’s marxist ACA.
And those of us who have enjoyed almost perfect health throughout our lives r also penalized now as sr. citizens because we chose to see a naturopathic doctor instead of an allopathic one. Healthcare should never b forced upon its citizens and a tax! Haven’t decided which is more evil… the paid-for lackeys in congress, big pharma or healthcare companies.
FIX IT… WHATEVER IT TAKES
A billionaire wants the handmaidens of corporatist America to eliminate the healthcare exchanges where individuals and small businesses compare and purchase health insurance plans, needy Americans receive financial assistance for healthcare, and all the plans offered through exchanges are required to cover essential health benefits and cannot deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions; so that the Senate can lower the amount being spent on each person further while removing the restrictions on insurance companies lowering coverage while bringing back excluding coverage for pre-existing conditions? No thank you.
I pay 40-50k in premiums, deductibles and non-covered expenses like vision and dental annually. Those expenses were around 12k thirteen years ago. Based on your comments above, I’m guessing you’re not paying much out of pocket annually?
Are you insured through work, Medicare, or receiving subsidies for Obamacare?
What state and how many on policy? My wife retired early in MN and paid about $650 a month without dental and hearing until she got on medicare. So, about $8,000 a year for a policy is still too high, but $40-50k?
As some are saying, when the premium is higher than taking the risk of zero insurance, somethings got to give. Even a family of 4 with some minor medical issues wouldn’t spend $40k a year. Insurance is always about what we are willing to risk.
It all comes back to supply and demand. When the government subsidizes something supposedly making it cheaper, it increases the demand, allowing suppliers to charge more. It’s just a pass through money launder and really doesn’t help with a student loan or health insurance or mortgages or farmers and crops or even groceries. If everybody had SNAP, groceries would be even higher. What is the incentive of a supplier to reduce prices when the demand is driven by ever increasing supply of easy money?
As of fiscal year 2024, approximately 26.1% of the U.S. population, or about 89 million people, were covered by Medicaid. The LISEP metric almost mirrors the percentage of the U.S. population on Medicaid at 24.7%.
If the people you vote for would stop lining their pockets to allow the offshoring of U.S. jobs to foreign nations, outsourcing of U.S. work to foreign firms, and in-sourcing of foreign replacement labor into the U.S. domestic labor market; both percentages would be halved within five years.
I support symbiotic solutions to healthcare which benefit employers, workers, and the nation. Simply kicking poor U.S. citizen workers off Medicaid and the ACA who lose their jobs because they are stricken with infirmity as the Republicans have decided to implement starting 01/01/2027 (after destabilizing the U.S. labor market through the above practices since NAFTA was ratified) is NOT symbiotic.
Also, I couldn’t help but promote the great Tom Clancy’s work. ;). Have a great day.
“Obama’s “Affordable” Care Act made healthcare anything but affordable. It lined the pockets of insurance companies while driving costs through the roof for everyone else. Health insurance has become one of the biggest scams in America.
A family medicine doctor just blew the lid off medical pricing—proving that paying cash for basic procedures like an MRI costs only a fraction of what insurance companies charge.
The proof is right here:
• With insurance: $1,900 → Self-pay: $374
• With insurance: $1,250 → Self-pay: $433
• With insurance: $1,800 → Self-pay: $209” …
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1987496259708391498?s=20
Ok. Here’s the deal. Each of us has a responsibility to stop idolizing doctors and pills. If I go into the doctor’s office and complain about my hip, I’m eventually (after many expensive tests and beautiful pills) going to end up with $80,000 of hip surgery that may or may not make it better. Maybe the original doctor is trying to be kind and responsive. So it is I who have the initial responsibility to take care of myself and try to avoid medical care.
So what each of us, hundreds of thousands of us, should do today is do everything we can do to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. Be determined to not know the location of the pharmacy. We all have the ability to research alternatives.
What if we all joined together, made a noise so loud that Senators, Congressmen, insurance companies, medical practices could hear change a’ coming?
Sure, but he problem goes deeper. MDs forced into “hospitalist” positions who work for the hospital, not the patient. Primary care no longer follows you during a hospital stay.
Meanwhile primary care has pushed down to PA/APRN who lack the training or clinical experience of an internist. They can just order tests and provide the “standard of care” from the results.
Also need to eliminate employer healthcare support and give the same compensation money to individuals to allow them to shop for the best insurance for their family, regardless of what employers want to offer and to allow for portable plans that survive a loss of employment without a hiccup so long as the premiums are paid, exactly as with auto and homeowners insurance. There is absolutely no reason that we have this brain dead healthcare insurance system other than distorting political influence (with a big helping of Marxist wishcasting). Blow it all up.
Congress can’t even end the nonsense of changing clocks twice a year. You really think they can do something as simple as give money to the people to help them make their own decision? They can’t and won’t.
I have worked for State Medicaid in a blue State for years. I thought I was helping my fellow most vulnerable citizen. What I have seen is American developers/coders systematically be replaced by H1B immigrants primarily from the middle east (Hindus & Muslims). They code what they are told to code and don’t cause a fuss when the rules they are coding only help immigrants and illegals. None of the functional analyst, system analyst or testers complained because they were not developers. Well Deloitte just signed a contract in my blue State to replace the remaining American Citizens. This was after they just laid off approximately 1000 citizens in State Government. Illegals and H1B visa holders are now in charge of our country.
We have H1B immigrants that hate the Citizens of our Country working in all levels of government (City, County, State, Federal, Center for Medicare & Medicaid, United States Customs & Immigration (USCIS), Courts). One developer told me one line of coding with an effective date and time could turn off all airplanes at the same time. It would just need to be hidden in an area of code that never got reviewed.
We need to replace every H1B visa holder in the country with an American born citizen. This is a matter of national security as well as national economics.
In addition this same blue state will use self-attestation for citizenship, to allow illegals to access Medicaid and they will submit federally approved emergency billing codes to make sure all illegals get full Medicaid paid for by tax payers. They have workarounds for everything.