Posted on 01/15/2026 1:28:42 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Leavitt outlined the president’s vision to reporters during Thursday’s White House press briefing. She stated that the first pillar is “permanently lowering prescription drug prices” by codifying Trump’s most-favored-nations deals with pharmaceutical companies.
“Congress can get this done by codifying President Trump’s historic most-favored-nation [MFN] initiatives into law to guarantee Americans the same low prices for prescription drugs that people in other countries around the world pay,” Leavitt said.
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Secondly, the “Great Healthcare Plan” would halt billions in extra taxpayer-funded subsidies for insurance companies, “and instead send that money directly to eligible Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice,” Leavitt shared.
It would also fund “a cost-sharing reduction program for healthcare plans,” and end “kickbacks from pharmacy benefit managers to large brokerage middlemen,” Leavitt said.
A cost-sharing reduction program would save at least an estimated $36 billion in taxpayer dollars, per the Congressional Budget Office, according to the White House.
The third pillar of the plan will greatly broaden price transparency by requiring “any healthcare provider or insurer who accepts either Medicare or Medicaid to publicly and prominently post their pricing and fees to avoid surprise medical bills,” according to Leavitt, who noted that such a policy has garnered bipartisan support for years.
Fourthly, Leavitt said the framework would help Americans “make the best purchasing decisions for them and their families” by requiring insurance companies “to publish rate and coverage comparisons up front on their websites in plain English.”
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She called on Congress to immediately get to work on Trump’s plan. Trump urged House Republicans to focus on healthcare during a House GOP retreat at the Trump-Kennedy Center on January 6.
“You want to turn this thing? You work on Favored Nations, you work on borders, you work on all of the things that we talked about, but now, you take the healthcare issue away from [Democrats], and they want to fight it. You know why? They’re all owned by the insurance companies,” he added.
Are any of them ‘get government out of healthcare as soon as possible’?
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Some of it. Others seem to be, use the same massive power of centralized, progressive Fed.gov to engineer a different result, after seeing the obvious excesses of existing cronies and corrupt bureaucrats.
Kinda like what Putin did in Russia, after people got tired of failed marxist ideology, and were strip-mined by government insider-crony theft.
How about letting consumers of any state buy insurance from any company in America? Why do individual states need insurance commissioners who ultimately decide who can do business in that state.
Allow consumers to buy from any company that sells insurance in the USA.
Let’s see if the GOP Congress can take a break from funding Leftist causes for five minutes to get this done.
“Please provide the list of ((435 / 2) + 1) US Representatives and 51 Senators that would vote for your proposal”
I can provide you a list of over 300 reps/senators who would vote for Communist medicine. And anybody who opposes should be thrown in a gulag or just simply shot dead.
So, because they will vote for it,
Ergo,
I nominate Communist medicine for the United States of America instead of something rational and decent and constitutional.
We have a problem that even among conservatives, abolishing Obamacare is no longer popular.
Those of us who remain who truly love the Constitution are complete outsiders at this point.
I’m on Medicare, I have plan f supplement. I don’t care what doctor charges. It’s going to be covered.
“Why do individual states need insurance commissioners who ultimately decide who can do business in that state.”
Because we have a federal system.
Insurance contracts in Alabama need to follow the laws of Alabama.
Insurance contracts in New York need to follow the laws of New York.
etc.
Yes, and insurance companies can and do operate in any state they wish if they follow state rules.
Pretty tough to do. Since government is offering solutions to the health care plans here in this nation, then we know the problems are with the government and not the health care providers. Government is always the problem
Until the 1st line is:
Deductibles and co-pays, or any obvious, layered or hidden facsimile of them, are forbidden and highly illegal.
It’s all blah, blah, blah...
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