Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump urges Senate GOP to send health insurance money 'directly to the people'
Just the News ^ | November 8, 2025 10:14am Updated: November 8, 2025 10:19am | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 11/08/2025 10:46:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

"In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!" Trump says

While the government shutdown continues, President Trump on Sunday urged Senate Republicans to send the Obamacare subsidy money directly to taxpayers rather than to the insurance companies.

"I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!" he added.

Senate Democrats are advocating for a one-year extension of the Obamacare premium subsides that they put in place during the pandemic when former President Biden was in office.

Trump and Senate Republicans have argued that Democrats should support the temporary funding bill that would reopen the government and negotiate healthcare issues separately.

Trump has said the Senate GOP should eliminate the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation in order to reopen the government.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS:

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-46 next last

1 posted on 11/08/2025 10:46:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly what needs to be done. Get the insurance companies out of it entirely. There is no reason for the health insurance market to exist in its current form.


2 posted on 11/08/2025 10:48:33 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many officials - Left and Right - cater to those ‘big bad’ insurance companies? 🙄


3 posted on 11/08/2025 10:48:43 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Man, medical marijuana has made all my problems go up in smoke.

That Trump dude is the greatest.


4 posted on 11/08/2025 10:51:18 AM PST by Brian Griffin (Trump needs to allow needy military people to get leave/discharges and paid civilian work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Miss, excuse me, Mr. Trans is just so pleased.


5 posted on 11/08/2025 10:53:02 AM PST by Brian Griffin (Trump needs to allow needy military people to get leave/discharges and paid civilian work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The GOP and the President need to be communicating to voters that the “draconian” premium increases that Schumer and others are demagoging are the natural and intended product of Obamacare, working exactly as expected. Trump tried to repeal Obamacare in his 1st term, but Sen. McCain thwarted that. The Supreme Court ruled that a tax was not a tax to rescue Obamacare, and all other efforts to stop it have likewise failed. What we have is Obamacare exactly as written. They “bent the oust curve down”... Shove all of that in the face of Democrats trying to argue that we need to continue short-term emergency subsidies from the Covid crisis era.


6 posted on 11/08/2025 10:54:45 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken (1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

You’ve got a golden mouth,Leroy!


7 posted on 11/08/2025 10:55:07 AM PST by Brian Griffin (Trump needs to allow needy military people to get leave/discharges and paid civilian work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

They blew my money on tests to verify what was in my medical report already.


8 posted on 11/08/2025 10:57:27 AM PST by Brian Griffin (Trump needs to allow needy military people to get leave/discharges and paid civilian work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

My drug costs $30K a year, Trump gave me $5K.


9 posted on 11/08/2025 10:59:09 AM PST by Brian Griffin (Trump needs to allow needy military people to get leave/discharges and paid civilian work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay, this is about as clear as mud. Whatever Trump’s idea is, he has to spell it out a lot more clearly than this.


10 posted on 11/08/2025 10:59:24 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mr. President, we need to changes laws and regs to enable any HCPs who want to leave their health systems and go
into independent practice.

We also need catastrophic coverage.

And not just for the young’uns.


11 posted on 11/08/2025 10:59:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nonliberal

The ultimate fix is mass health savings accounts.

I’ve never met a person with an HSA who disliked it. Prices are so much cheaper, service is faster cause no insurance or government paperwork, and doctors are happier.(they don’t have to do excess paperwork either)

The progressive-era invention of employer-based insurance has been an utter disaster. And would you expect anything less from the progressives? All they are capable of doing is ruination.

Then we would only need insurance companies for rare catastropic things. Which is exactly where insurance companies should be. Kept in a box, far far away from anybody.


12 posted on 11/08/2025 11:00:56 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hilarious!

The proposal will not even elicit a comment from a Senator in the majority.

Much less a committee hearing lol


13 posted on 11/08/2025 11:04:44 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProgressingAmerica

I couldnt get insurance before Obamacare because of Sleep Apnea. That’s right. I was repeatedly turned down.

Thank goodness for Obamacare when i went through my ovarian cancer scare when Doctors were convinced I had ovarian cancer.

So exactly what is suppose to happen to those that dont work for anyone else and don’t have a company that has at least two people and who make too much money to be on medicaid?


14 posted on 11/08/2025 11:08:43 AM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
BAM! Problem solved!

Make demonicRATS and Rabid Paul (but I repeat myself) explain why MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS should get that money.

15 posted on 11/08/2025 11:10:03 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProgressingAmerica

I do agree with that. HSA’s plus catastrophic are the way to go.


16 posted on 11/08/2025 11:10:12 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like part of a great plan to me.

To add to it, let’s make insurance nation wide instead of by the state where it is divide and conquer the crooked state insurance commissions. The places where insurance is $210 a month for Part G in one state and $44 in another.


17 posted on 11/08/2025 11:11:17 AM PST by Sequoyah101
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProgressingAmerica

“ Then we would only need insurance companies for rare catastropic things”

Just think how expensive car maintenance would be if every time you got your oil changed, it had to go through an insurance company. Especially if you were on something likeMedicare where everything goes through Medicare and your back up plan. The amount of paperwork is incredible.


18 posted on 11/08/2025 11:13:20 AM PST by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Texas Eagle
There is absolutely nothing preventing an individual from choosing to pay for all their own medical expenses out of pocket, and leaving the insurance companies out of it completely.

If that's what you want to do, you can do it starting tomorrow.

19 posted on 11/08/2025 11:14:24 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Bruce Campbells Chin

OK.


20 posted on 11/08/2025 11:18:54 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-46 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson