President Donald J. Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan is a broad healthcare initiative that will slash prescription drug prices, reduce insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies accountable, and maximize price transparency in the American healthcare system.
This plan will deliver money directly to the American people, not insurance companies, big pharma and special interest groups—putting patients over industry leaders’ profits, just as he promised. The Great Healthcare Plan also builds on the successes of his first term by promoting competition, eliminating wasteful spending, and putting consumers back in control. [The Great Healthcare Plan]
DETAILS HERE
Fact Sheet pdf HERE ~ Announcement Here
Another one in the “I voted for this” column!
“Lawmakers” will introduce a bill to counter these initiatives on behalf of their sponsors post haste. Not unlike a bill submitted to interfere with negotiations concerning Greenland.
98.8% of world leaders couldn’t hold a candle to this president and what he is doing for his people.
Pres Trump is doing his part, blame congress
98.8% of world leaders…ALL other world leaders…I’m not sure referring to the rest as “leaders” is appropriate.
There can be only one leader.
All the rest are followers.
That too!
World Looters. It must have been a misspelling.
Yep. The devil is in the details, and Congress (the devil) will write those details. The final product will look and sound like PT’s proposal, but the details mean it will be anything but. PT and his people need a strategy to publicly expose and counter those details immediately as they come out, so that maybe whatever bill hits his desk will be close enough to sign. But he needs to be ready to veto it if it is a pig. This topic contains too much of the graft applecart for Congress to resist making things worse, not better.
That move is populist slop meant to keep us all happy with bread and circuses. I am firmly opposed to re-distributing funds and firmly opposed to the BlueCoatFederals interfering in medice.
Wow, we can only dream of a leader who puts the man in the street central to all other considerations.
The insurance and banking, pharma and big ag are all enemies of a stable economy.
Would be great to see and end to – Money for nothing and the chicks are feee.
Not just Pharma: The whole medical industrial complex.
I didn’t see any “if I like my plan I can keep my plan” clauses.
Thats the current problem badger, nobody likes their plans anymore thanks to Hussein Care.
Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but I do like my plan. Then again, it’s a Federal group plan I’ve been in for over 40 years. It’s slightly spendy but has been worth every penny given wife’s ailments. So I would prefer he not muck with those who are currently happy. That would be no different a violation of consumer choice than Bozo’s Obamacare.
Well, pin a rose on your nose.
He said that in the unlikely case you are happy with your current plan you can keep it and that the premium should be dropping 10-15%.
It sounds like he just wants to give money to the people who have Obamacare through medicaid. You should be fine
Federal group plan. Of course you like it. Congress made sure they, and you, were much better treated than us.
Do you think Congress will end their perks?
Exactly
because the government pays half or more of your premiums as one of your benefits. The rest of the country is paying the higher full premium cost.
The plan is great until you retire and have to pay Medicare premiums and Federal plan and you have fewer treatment choices and your spouse doesn’t get some of the benefits the retiree gets
. There definitely is a difference. I tried to sign up for Silver Sneakers- having paid BC/BS premiums for 43 years but as it turns out, I can’t join because I alive in the wrong zip code- guess it’s OK to discriminate based on zip code. So, BCBS is not about health and fitness as much as as social engineering.
There are lots of health care problems to be fixed. Can we just have a doctor and we agree on fee for services and get the government out? Steps off soapbox.
You are not required to take Medicare unless in Tricare.
Or, your employer dumps you in when you reach Medicare eligibility.
Silver Sneakers is just CVS being your new pharmacy…🤮. Silver Sneakers is NOT your healthcare insurance coverage plan.
“federal”…..says it all
takes care of themselves
and says screw everyone else
How can any sane person fight against what President Trump is trying to do for our country? Only those who don’t belong here or just plan hate I guess.
Or too stupid, ignorant and lazy to understand.
I also fear that the stupid, ignorant and lazy will misuse any funds given directly to them and not use it to invest in their own health.
We have, after all, become a nation of victims.
“ We have, after all, become a nation of victims . . .”
. . . and Parasites.
A ‘sane’ person would state unequivocally that the Federal Government has no Constitutional standing to be involved in Healthcare at all. NONE. ZERO. It’s a personal business transaction by a FREE person and a FREE doctor….or a FREE person and a FREE insurance company.
But I guess we’ve crossed that Rubicon decades ago. Even ‘Conservatives’ don’t give two shits about the Constitution anymore.
the last of the Constitutions true defenders…
Thank you,
It’s difficult to recall a time where the government got involved in anything that resulted in a positive outcome for the people.
You and I are resonant with the clear limits on the hated BlueCoatFederals involvement in medicine.
No one here, or any where else, can point to a sentence in the Constitution supporting governmental interference, but people lap it up like it’s an entitlement. Even many on here, and I thought there would be opposition instead of riotous applause.
Politicians getting kickbacks from the insurance lobby. Follow the money and the votes.
Check out Minnesota…
Morons with acute tds supported and goaded on by anti-American billionaires, bent on the destruction of this nation would be my guess?
“This plan will deliver money directly to the American people”
what money? where does this money come from?
It’s in the fact sheet –
so, instead of an insurance company subsidy, some sort of benefit payout from tax revenue.
How about the government does not confiscate that money from the American People in the first place? The government’s administrative overhead puts the worst non-profit to shame.
Duh. But our reps just voted to give the $$$$$$ to the insurance companies so PDJT is making lemonade out of lemons.
Since they voted to spend the money then why not BYPASS THE INSURANCE COMPANIES and give it to Americans?
Right now, insurance companies charge (for example) $1,000 per month to the govt and probably deliver $300 per month of “healthcare”. They pocket the rest and “tip” their favorite Congress-losers.
What do you want him to do?? Congress won’t cooperate, right now.
As in the previous successful HSA program, the money is funded by personal income which can be transferred tax free to the designated Health Savings Account for each individual. The government involvement does not require disbursement of tax funds; it provides a tax deduction to the income used by the individual to pay for health care expenses on the open market. There is a supplemental low-cost policy to pool the coverage risk for less likely catastrophic medical expenses. It worked well prior to being eliminated by Obamacare…
this helps. I appreciate the time you put into this informative response.
appreciated.
God Bless America
Promises made, promises kept.
See CrapWeasels? That really wasn’t so hard to do now, huh? It’s almost as if the R wing never really meant what they….. 🤔
I’m confused…..why is the govt sending $$ to anyone? Why not lower taxes to help pay for insurance and let the insurance companies experience market forces (by being able to cross state lines)?……
Because as the ACA currently stands, there are subsidies guaranteed to persons who meet financial thresholds. Those subsidies now go directly to insurance companies; an incentive to raise their rates arbitrarily.
Eliminating that subsidy would require a complete re-write of the ACA, something CONgress is never going to do. This is a parallel move, similar to President Trump’s going around the Wall St/CoC banking forces to implement a parallel banking system. By giving the subsidy directly to the insured, this plan creates natural forces of competition into the market. Customers always win when there is competition for services.
Does absolutely nothing to help many of us that can not afford government health insurance with or without the subsidies. There is no role for government in health insurance.
Agreed. However, the ACA is here, CONgress is not going to scrap it. I get it, Never Satisfied and all..
President Trump is trying to improve things for us wherever he can.
I can see this now.
We have not have healthcare insurance for years. And while I agree that government has no place, we must start where we are now. Lower prescription prices will help all of us. And perhaps this will be a piece of winning the Midterms which, Lord willing, might send a few more actual representatives to Congress who will work with President Trump rather than against him. The ACA has to be repealed. By Congress.
It would have been, if not for the traitorous John McCain!
He’s thinking about that right now, while weeping, wailing and gnashing his teeth.
Thanks for the explanation.
Ever read stories of people receiving bankrupting medical bills asking hospitals what the figure would be if they paid cash?
An eye watering reduction.
Then, when offering to pay in cash, being told they couldn’t because they had insurance?
If that’s not a cartel….
(Also let’s have a review of dishonourable , corrupted members of Congress and their booty from insurance lobbyists. I’m fairly certain the amounts are part of the public record.)
And the insurance companies dictate what the doctors have to charge in order for them to stay “In Network”.
Plus they have to use ‘the proper treatment’ or you “have no job”.
I saw bankrupting Insurance plans. $14,000 yearly premiums with the same value in deductibles and copays. Imagine having to pay $28,000 for your healthcare before insurance kicks in.
I can’t, Jim. But I know you’re right because I’ve read too many people telling their experiences.
Paying for insurance is what keeps costs HIGH. If there were ZERO health insurers what would medical providers do? I think it’s obvious. They would provide service more affordably.
At the end of the day, healthcare is a “technology service” just like “IT departments” and “auto repair” and “HVAC work.” In the technology service world, lots of ways to do the services change and develop but generally the prices we pay are determined by the customer. But when a thing becomes “insured” like health, home and auto, then it means the customer is begging for money from people to which they give money! It sounds like a really complicated bank account in a way. Imagine making deposits regularly but then you need to make a withdrawal and have to ask permission. (Yes, I know this exists for certain types of bank accounts already… like my HSA!) But my bank doesn’t determine whether or not I actually GET THE SERVICE AT ALL.
And just MAYBE a parent will consider the costs before getting their kids on horemones and getting surgery to cut things off… and just MAYBE states like California can no longer require such things as part of all of this.
There’s going to be a LOT more details at play here. But one thing is certain, health insurance is the REASON health services are high.
Think of it this way: Before auto insurance was required, it was MUCH cheaper. And if you were worried about the other drivers not being insured, you bought “uninsured motorist” to add to your policy which was only a little bit more. But now that it’s REQUIRED, the prices just skyrocketed.
When a thing is more “optional and voluntary” the pressure favors the consumer. When it’s required, the pressure favors the industries. Because it wasn’t just the cost of insurance that went up. It was auto repair companies that specialize in accident repair and related services as well. And of course as auto repair services became more profitable, auto-makers started making cars more complicated and “only WE can allow repairs to your car to occur because technology things we did.”
Did you think auto insurance requirements were a good idea? NO. It was a horrible idea and we’re all living through the consequences… all that was needed was for people to buy “uninsured motorist for a little more than they were paying” and everyone else who didn’t participate were SOL… but their lack of participation helped keep our rates lower.
In 2011 Mittens Romney got one thing right. 47% of the population doesn’t pay any taxes.
That percentage has certainly gone up in 14 years + the 30M invading leeches.
They will dig up McCain to vote it down.
Rand Paul seems to be filling that role lately.
This just in:
Judge Boasberg orders a preemptive TRO and gag order to silence President Trump from discussing anything of any relevance.
and congress refused to hold Boasberg accountable–many that refused were Republicans
Questions….?
Mine is “My company supplements our health plans complete with incentive programs such as the walker-tracker” and things of that sort meant to impress our insurance providers and to encourage them to keep the costs low.
This “allowance” program? Is this on TOP of what we’re getting? I’ve been trying to keep my own HSA filled with pre-tax money and we’ve maintained a strong balance until things have happened and things needed to be addressed.
I’m sure all of those answers will come and it’ll be good. By putting the money into the hands of the recipients FIRST, it stops being “other peoples’ money” and the consumer will have more direct input into things. It’s a very sound idea but I wonder how many people will then elect to NOT get care at all? If I’m a canary in that coal mine, I would say yes. I have avoided getting care for things usually deferring them. But I also avoid CERTAIN “care” because they are treatments which do not address anything that looks like causes. That’s not healthcare, that’s sick-care.
I think that people WILL participate more judiciously but probably people will run through the money quickly because they are stupid and short-sighted and then try to get free stuff through other government programs. That’s where certain pressures will likely remain in place to keep costs higher. So how all of this balances out will be interesting to watch.
We are not even allowed to have an HSA under current government policies because we can not afford to even buy the government subsidized insurance. So we just put money into a savings account set aside for healthcare. Amazing how much of a discount many healthcare providers will give for paying with cash.
The only perspective I understand is “employed, employer subsidizes health insurance and I pay some too and I have portions of payroll going to my HSA pre-tax.” I don’t know what government subsidized insurance is in the sense of the details and what’s allowed and not.
But if I were to guess, because Trump mentioned something like that in his speech, perhaps we will see HSAs for all?
It wouldn’t make sense for Trump to send out cash that could be spent on anything.
Will the people of Greenland be eligible to take advantage of this Great Healthcare Plan?
Sounds great but CONgress will never pass it, they get too much money from big pharma and the insurance companies.
Then Trump will show up in their primary.
Yes, and they are NOT on the same insurance plans that we the American people are.
Take their privileged health coverage away and make it the same.
They fear Trump. They fear what the justice department and others are doing at present. There may be negotiations. You know “pass this and retire and we will consider leniency” That would be a bit dirty but is it any less dirty than what’s going on among these swampies now?
Blame also, the moderate democrats that gave in to Obama to pass the bill in the first place! They took the sword and all had to retire! Cowards! Then McCain proving he was a democrat!
Is it perfect? No but it’s way better than what we have now. And it gives congress the out they need to replace Obamacare. Best of all it removes Obama from the the lips of every American when they think of Health Insurance.
Given how Hussein further screwed up an already messy situation, I prefer that he is forever hung with the “badge of honor.”
make that a horror badge
TENTH AMENDMENT
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
On this issue, that ship has sailed. The SC rulings on Obama care closed that door. Trump is a pragmatist and hard core libertarians or true ideologists can always find fault, much like the prohibition radicals did with Lincoln. But, like Lincoln, he advances the ball against odds. And most of the time, he advances it to the betterment of the US citizen.
Lots of “whats” in there.
Didn’t see a single “how”.
Color me skeptical.
EDIT: We are still waiting on the manfacturing *boom* that he promised. MFG has declined every month since April.
At first your act was mildly amusing on a slow Tuesday. Now you’re just a flat out liar.
Prove to me that I am lying.
Show me real evidence of a manufacturing boom that wasn’t done with AI or Photoshop.
It takes 2 minutes to destroy something, which democrats did, but it takes years to fix the disaster! Where were people when Biden destroyed our country, then people want Trump to fix the mess in 2 minutes!
New factories are not built in a day or even a year.
Crushing the machine….
One gear at a time….
For a retiree on Medicare, as myself, also GIVE BACK every friggin’ penny borrowed from the Medicare BENEFIT Fund by Congress and Executive to pay for Welfare Entitlements, Medicaid and ESPECIALLY OBMAMACARE and COVID Injection (aka Vaccine) Program.
Then to do as the plan says … “give money directly to the people” … decouple Medicare from the General Federal Fund and Social Security Fund.
[I would include Social Security in the decoupling but there are even bigger issues regarding borrowing and use (aka SSI and SS-Disbaility) of SS-Funds By Congress and Executive as a source of WELFARE Entitlement money.]
I wish we could get back to straight and clear use of the english language. Most of this has nothing to do with healthcare. Just like most government “healthcare” programs much of this relates to “health insurance” rather than “healthcare”. There IS, or should be, a big difference between the two.
Really? Actually? Truly? No joke?
Hmmmmmm.
Next do car insurance and lower the cost.
And lower the cost of going to an NFL game. Make it way lower.
Boycott. Last time I was able to go to an NFL was 1984 and my dad I think paid $15 bucks a ticket and $5 for parking for family of 5.
Good or bad I cannot say but “eligible” is a specific term and there’s not a list yet. I do know that Amazon has gotten involved in the medical field that will save people money but it’s currently through phone contact to help diagnose the issue before being given instructions of what to do next.
Some might say moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Go back to pre-Barry Care and allow independent insurance companies to offer plans tailored to the individual. My wife had a plan that did not have men’s issues….i.e, didn’t have coverage for prostate stuff, testicular cancer, get it up medicine, and since she couldn’t have kids, it had no baby delivery coverage. It was an 80/20 plan that was quite affordable.
I had a great private plan I carried for years. $250 deductible, 20% across the board copays, $2500 Out of pocket max. Affordable premiums. Then came Christmas Eve 2009… By February my plan was considered against the law.
Yep, that is what happened to my wife’s plan. Luckily, I could add her to mine within 30 days
and make the fat shots free for all americans if they want it at a very cheap cost to the government, skinny people costs so much less
Drug addicts are very skinny for the most part. They are not cheap
Check what your local Non Profit hospital ceo is paid !!!! And lower rank administrators!! Mine makes 880000 !! But claims he helps the Community!!!! Where is the board of trustees??? Act local. !! Put this money into nursing!!!!
So that we can get more visa nurses or more dancing covid nurses?
No thanks.
But who let those fools dance? The Insurance Companies
Has CONgress declared it “dead on arrival” yet?
It makes me sad, and more than a little annoyed, to read all of the whiny head doom and gloom Eyore types venting their spleens over yet another win for the American people by President Trump.
Is this a perfect solution? Absolutely not. It goes against all of the “sacred principles” espoused by Professional RepubliCons and ConServative Inc grifters for decades (sarcasm intended).
A “perfectly conservative solution” isn’t possible in this day and age.
Is this a good solution? No…..It’s a GREAT solution. President Trump is a genius. He knows the UniParty won’t eliminate the ACA. He also knows that the RepubliCons will have a hard time opposing this plan so close to the midterms. Brilliant move Mr. President!
By the way-where are all of the complainers whose panties were in a bunch about President Trump ignoring “America First?”
All I hear are crickets.
The winning streak for Team Trump continues!
“By the way-where are all of the complainers whose panties were in a bunch about President Trump ignoring “America First?”
Busy attending the Amalgamated Union of The Never Satisfied daily outrage meeting. 🤣
😂🤣😂
He’s advancing the ball by any means possible. It’s not perfect but it gives the Republicans a clear alternative to use in their campaigns to counter anti health care arguments. It’s a win for Midterms.
Congress GOPe had better do their part in getting this initiative across the finish line!
No mention of HSAs? Disappointing. But its a start.
That “Fact Sheet” needs a dedicated hotline number – to report the medical providers and/or facilities that will refuse to adhere to any new such law. Not just a number, but an official claim form.
I would love to hear from any of the Disgruntled Eyores.
What would your plan be?
Any ideas that don’t have a snowball’s chance of getting through Congress are prohibited.
I read the “details” and all I’m seeing is a potential 10% reduction in ObamaCare plans. Families are paying thousands of dollars a month for substandard healthcare. I don’t see how a 10% reduction is going to help. Even if they publish rates and other statistics, what families need NOW is affordable healthcare. Or they go on state aid, which limits the doctors they can see, and limits what the doctors can charge.
And as far as Medicare goes… they pay doctors something like $20 on a $200 bill (just a ball park number). I have a really good Medigap plan in addition to Medicare, but they can only pay the extra “according to Medicare rules”, so the doctor might get another $5. I’m not asking doctors to work for pennies on the dollar. My healthcare premiums between the two healthcare plans is at least 20% of my retirement income. 20% hurts. (Now you know how broke I am).
I remember when we had excellent healthcare and it costed 100’s per month, not thousands. Doctors were paid better too. So where is all the fudge money going? We are paying much more for much less and somewhere in the middle someone is getting rich.
Did the “details” require competition between state lines? I didn’t see that.
I hope the plan follows the last broadcast advice given by Dr. Charles Krauthammer before he died of cancer; to really CUT costs of the health expenditures…..MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM. 33% savings. Defensive medicine drives up prices for everyone. and crowds out patients who need scans but slots are filled up for CT and MRIs for tests that may not be necessary. Also ,80% of malpractice lawsuits don’t go anywhere and waste money and time. Doctor’s yearly malpractice fees go up.
There is a culture of unrealistic expectations that expected complications are grounds for lawsuit or that perfect outcomes in complicated cases are the norm. It also pits patients against doctors in an adversarial relationship; the doctor very often has no control whom they see (unlike lawyers who get to pick and choose cases to pursue) as they come through the ER door or office door. They have very few malpractice suits in Germany, as an example, as the CULTURE has been that , except for incompetence or malice, doctors are trying to help the patient as best they can.
They are also confounded by PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS for actual needed tests or imaging that then delays care (The AMA has reported this in around 2022 and this situation has led to bad outcomes and deaths in patients who are delayed in care) as denials are put down immediately even though when going through peer-to-peer process phone calls, the doctor overcomes the denials 90% of the time….but now the patient is worse….and needs to send them on a Friday afternoon to the ER and WASTE QUADRUPLE the money on in-patient tests that could have been done as outpatient. Insurance companies need to look to the baseball analogy; if there are men on 2nd and 3rd base and the .356 batting average cleanup hitter is up (ie a doctor who wins >90% of denials for 20 years), YOU WALK THE BATTER (ie get the test). Doctors waste 3 hours a day on the phone arguing with insurance company idiots and filling out reams of online forms and have to limit time slots at work that would go to actually, you know, SEEING at patient who has been waiting 4-6 months for a specialist. Just a thought. 3% of doctors cause 97% of lawsuits.
Also, we need to start using medical insurance like CAR insurance; if you are healthy young 18-45 year old, just PAY the primary doc in cash for the yearly visit….and use insurance for HOSPITALIZATIONS/ ER visits or big ticket medication therapies. You don’t use Car insurance to pay for gas or wiper blades or oil changes. You use it when your car gets wrecked. Premiums would go down. Docs could then put out a price list of fees for cash and patients could be better informed of costs and SHOP around for a doctor they want. This would be great for primary doctors. Insurance could be used for specialists as they need to be paid more for their expertise and skill and the tougher residencies and fellowships they had to go through. Also, back offices full of employees who just do insurance forms and billing all day could be whittled down if primary docs are paid in CASH instead of wasting 16 minutes filling out a form for pimple removal or a cough. Insurance companies could then fire a bunch of beam counters LOWERING their costs that they pass on to you, the patient.
DISCUSS.
That plan is a great start.. I voted for an integrity aligned leadership and PDJT is delivering it..
The masks in congress are going to be coming off soon.
Translation: President Trump and the GOP are looking to do away with the ACA state exchanges that protects low-income U.S. citizens by legislating low deductibles and reasonable out-of-pocket maximums to protect low income citizens in exchange for HSAs without any state protections so the insurance companies can simply raise the deductibles and out of pocket maximums while charging the same amount of money and make more profit. They hide this truth behind professional looking propaganda to make their middle-class voters feel good about doing this and also to fool the poor who are largely ignorant about what they are going to do to them.
“The rich get richer and the poor get poorer [and sicker]”-Percy Bysshe Shelley (A Defence of Poetry, 1840).
This new proposal must eliminate “out of market and regional insurance company control”. Only then will the market be free.
Congress will do nothing to help the people!
If only John McCain was still around to help. /s
Mandated coverage of unnecessary treatments is a huge part of expanded costs.
I don’t see any effort to roll back the nonsense.
Unfortunately, the Trial Lawyers’ Guild is an offshoot of DNC and they like the malpractice dystopian environment the way it is; they will never have their paid for congressman reform a single line of legislation. Tort reform and CULTURAL reform (ie not looking at docs as deep pockets for sense of entitlement when not 100% healed after doing parkour(!) on a concrete retaining wall without a helmet…
Will it lower the monthly premium that we retirees pay for Medicare? That monthly premium just went up as did the amount of the deductible. That gets kind of hefty when it is X2. Especially since I’m from the generation where the wife should stay home to take care of the kids and be the homemaker. You don’t get much social security for that job!
Sherry,you should get about half of what your husband gets,upon his demise,you would get his and not yours.That medicare premium goes up every year, and if you get a cost of living increase, it is used up by this increase.
Well darn ….want to make you put in a HC savings. Guess they don’t want people using money for other things.
If I were a young person ,twenties, I would take money and invest and pay my own doctor visits. I’m sure some people will figure a way around the restriction. The young could even carry catastrophic and use extra to invest.
Needn’t strain the brain over it cause the stingy, greedy, crooks on capital hill would rather die than to put that power and money back into the peoples hands
Another thing to consider……Those changes to coverage that Obummercare made…..wellness visits,no preexisting condition restrictions, no lifetime cap, the endless doctor paperwork and most important, insurance can no longer tell a doctor how to proceed in treatment or meds, This would be an opportunity to make changes where needed.
Hope the administration gets legislation that puts any cost savings from lower price drugs within Medicare, Medicaid, and it should be substantial, going directly to fund SS , Medicare and Medicaid. Otherwise those idiots will send it to themselves…I mean Ukraine or a newly created NGO.
I do NOT CARE if President Trump created an easier pill to swallow, the Federal Government has ZERO role in the delivery or management of health care.
the confusion and conflation of healthcare with insurance is why this is so big of a mess.
I start here, Insurance is not healthcare.
It is when the re-imbursement is denied or the procedure is altered. Insurance companies act as a de-facto approval system instead of a payment for service.
Before the government became our nanny, how were expenses paid for other than straight out of pocket? Were we that provincial and simple just a few generations ago?
Yes we were.
I do recall when I was younger that health insurance was provided to the employee as a benefit, and a percentage of your wages were deducted as a government program called Medicare… 😛
For some of you ,President Trump could propose kissing all your behinds, and you would argue about which cheek he should do.
In my particular case, he would have to kiss both cheeks…..
The traitor John McCain will vote against it from Hell.
Everything pointed out on this board and more will be screamed at top volume in order to keep ‘the devil we know.’ Trump will be attacked from all corners that what he is doing is too much or not enough or not the right thing in the right way.
If the gov’t is going to continue to be in healthcare and they should NOT, not even for the indigent, then the funds should go to HSAs controlled by individual people. And the federal gov’t should not fund and welfare programs for any states that use the funds for healthcare.
States can use their own funds to provide safety nets as they see fit without discriminating based on the sex, age, or race factors
Great big YAHN , Ho hum,
Here is a two step health plan:
Your #1 Would be overturned as a violation of 1st Amendment
Your #2 Requires Congress to change the law. That’s unlikely. Too many politicians get too much money from big pharma
TGHP is about as far as PDJT can go with just Executive action.
re #1: Drug ads were effectively banned from TV before 1997 by virtue of strict FDA regulations. The FDA required broadcast ads for prescription drugs to include a full “brief summary” of all risks, side effects, and contraindications which invariably were much too long and complex to fit into a 30- or 60-second commercial.
ps. Also remember that cigarette ads have been banned from television in the United States since January 1, 1971. The ban was implemented through the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969.
There is a large difference between free speech and pushing drugs and toxins.
Literally none of that would fix the cost of healthcare.
Cool. Now do something about the ERs and Urgent Care centers flooded with illegals and subsidized by the taxpayers!!
After 40 years in the ER overlapping with 15 in UrgentUrgent Care (for a total of 50 years this June), you are correct about the ER, but Urgent Cares usually require payment at time of service, and may or may not bill insurance. The profit margin is therefore much higher, but could be less if they accept Medicaid, which most don’t. ERs are regulated by EMTALA laws (and other regulations) to require stabilization of any emergency condition, regardless of any ability to pay, but patients may be billed after the emergency stabilization, but rarely pay if they don’t have insurance., the Amish excepted…they always pay…mostly in cash.
There are very few illegal immigrants who have Medicare, and Medicare is by far and away the best of all payors.
The solution is to drastically reduce the illegal immigrant population, not to stop the treatment of emergency conditions.
Also, drug dealers usually pay in cash, unless the emergency is caused by a crime, likewise the pimps of the ladies of the street.
ERs are one step off the street, Urgent Cares a much more respectable and safer distance away.
Spent a little time on the mountain, spent a little time on the hill….One way or another…..
Just sayin’.
In CA Newsom gave Medical(Medicaid) to all illegals; broke our already broken budget.
ah, do you not see illegals being booted out of the country?