https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/white-house-releases-great-healthcare-plan-drawing-skepticism-over-details-costs-affordable-care-act-subsidies-obamacare-medicine-lowering-prescription-drug-prices-most-favored-nation-one-big-beautiful-bill-coverage WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled what the White House is calling the “Great Healthcare Plan,” a broad framework aimed at lowering health care costs as Congress continues to debate the future of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
While the administration said the plan would deliver relief to Americans facing rising medical expenses, critics argue it lacks the specifics needed to reshape the system.
The plan focuses on several core goals:
Lowering prescription drug prices
Reducing insurance premiums
Increasing price transparency
Holding insurance companies more accountable
The framework also proposes changing how federal health care assistance is delivered, sending payments directly to households to help cover medical costs rather than routing subsidies through insurance companies.
Calling it “the biggest thing to happen to healthcare maybe since the beginning,” Trump urged lawmakers to codify the framework into law, saying congressional action is needed to expand on steps his administration has already taken.
Those steps include policies such as “most favored nation” drug pricing, which ties the cost of certain medications in the U.S. to lower prices paid abroad. Administration officials argue that broader legislation would build on those efforts and reduce costs more quickly for patients.
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The framework also notably rejects extending ACA subsidies, which have been a major point of contention on Capitol Hill.
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Why would we pay an ACA subsidy that is more expensive than direct medicare coverage?
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>>1478394 >The plan focuses on several core goals: >Lowering prescription drug prices >Reducing insurance premiums >Increasing price transparency >Holding insurance companies more accountable Ok but how? What does it do?
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>>1478418 Shut the fuck up liberal, nobody cares.
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>>1478410 Why not just nationalize the entire healthcare system and even give money to private companies then?
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>>1478437 Had a conversation about this the other day.
I prefer my private health insurance over waiting a long time for a crappy doctor.
The ideal solution in my mind is to just have free health care available for anybody (US resident+taxpayer) who wants it at any time, basically removing income cap on it. Single payer, no insurance company, same crappy doctors everyone gets on Medicare or whatever.
Private insurance should still be a thing for people with jobs and income.
Obamacare was a step up from where it was before, but the whole "subsidizing Private health insurance companies" that Democrats enacted for Obamacare (not a single Republican voted in favor of it) is literal corporate welfare
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>>1478410 Just ask that which has a bust of Winston Churchill, who - during WWII - planned what would instituted in 1948: the National Health Service in UK. Churchill even applauded the PM after him who did so, Clement Attlee.
Trump seems to like that PM so much, so you'd better ask that POTUS.
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Let me guess the direct payments are going to be less that 5k per a household that files taxes, not a credit but a deduction, per a year, and only locked in for the first year?
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>>1478433 Guys behold my new healthcare plan
>Make it less expensive >Stop corruption We will figure out how to actually accomplish these things later. Please elect me to the highest office in the land.
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>>1478531 He already is elected to the highest office and he's in the middle of following through on his promises to improve American healthcare whether you liggerals like it or not
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>>1478532 Uh huh. This time for sure.
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>>1478532 >he's in the middle of following through on his promises to improve American healthcare Ok but saying "I will make healthcare less expensive" without actually saying how you will do so means nothing. Saying "I will make it so people no longer starve!" isn't me implementing a plan to end world hunger; you need to actually say how you get there.
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>>1478394 >delivered, sending payments directly to households to help cover medical costs rather than routing subsidies through insurance companies. How will the liggerals complain about this one?
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>>1478536 What's worse is his plan is just transferring even more money to insurance companies since all they need to do is jack up their rates to take into account the cash money he gives to people which will just further increase trumpflation and nothing else.
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>>1478541 It ends up being more expensive and less efficient than extending subsidies, which itself is more expensive and less efficient than implementing single payer or single payer + the rich can still get Cadillac health plans.
This plan is essentially designed not to work out so politicians can say, "See Government is broken. We need more private contracting and corporate rent seeking to fix it!".
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>>1478547 >This isn't true of muhbamacae doe. >And yeah, last month I was all like "JUST GIVE THE FUCKING BILLIONAIRES MONEY OR WE'LL STOP GIVING POORS FOODSTAMPS!!! You have zero credibility. Hang yourself.
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>>1478394 there is no republican alternative to the ACA because it is the republican alternative to universal healthcare. It was Romneycare before it was Obamacare, and it was Nixoncare before it was Romneycare. Obama gave them their plan on a silver platter and they spat in his eye.
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>>1478601 This article is about the Republican Alternative to Obamacare?
Why doesn't it count?
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>>1478605 Because it isn't actually a plan. Saying you will make healthcare less expensive without actually having a way HOW means less than nothing.
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>>1478608 https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/president-trump-unveils-the-great-healthcare-plan-to-lower-costs-and-deliver-money-directly-to-the-people/ This proposal locks in the massive discount on prescription drugs that my administration is achieving through our most-favored-nations drug pricing agreement… It’ll bring down drug prices 80, 90% in some case
To further reduce insurance premiums, my plan ends the giant kickbacks to insurance brokers and corporate middleman that only drive up the costs…”
“It fully funds a long-neglected part of the law known as the Cost Sharing Reduction program. This measure alone should cut premiums on the most popular Obamacare plans—it’s hard to believe there are any because it’s a hated program, it’s unaffordable—but it’s going to cut them by an average of 10 to 15%.”
It requires insurers to publish detailed information about how much of your money they’re going to be paying out in claims versus how much they are taking in in profits… It forces them to release detailed data on how many claims are being denied and whether those denials are eventually overturned on appeal.”
“Most importantly, it will require any hospital or insurer who accepts Medicare or Medicaid to prominently post all prices of their place of business so that you are never surprised, and you can easily shop for a better deal or better care
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>>1478612 This shit still doesn't go into specifics.
It says it will fund the Cost Sharing Reduction program, something that DOESN'T EXIST. Cost Sharing Reduction is a policy that's part of Obamacare already; it's like saying you will fund tax exceptions. It isn't some kind of forgotten passed law.
It lists the "most-favored-nations" drug program as bringing down costs, but he's already implemented it and... prices are getting higher. It had some lowerings, but also increased others.
That bit about forcing hospitals and insurers to post prices ALREADY EXISTS. That shit is already IN ACA. It means fucking nothing.
It's all just fucking bullshit that still lacks a clear plan. Half of it is regurgitated from stuff already in Obamacare, and the other half is Trump's personal programs that have yet to properly work like he's promised. It's never going to pass either.
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>>1478612 >sounds great if you don't think about it it's amazing how little effort the Trump administration has to put in to fool idiots like you. They could
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>>1478633 Candlejack got y
broken clock says truth twice a day
>>1478633 >s amazing how little effort the Trump administration has to put in to fool idiots like you. tRump said he likes uneducated people.
All Republicans do, Trump just says it out loud again
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>>1478654 >>1478633 >>1478418 >READING LEARNIN WORDS IS FOR FAGGOTS Anonymous
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>>1478418 You gotta vote for it to find out,
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We are going to give every American $2,000 so they can use it to buy their own health insurance.
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>>1478890 Meh, we'll see what happens. We've got a week or so before tax time ramps up.
In the end, you didn't owe the government anything.
Unlike with the mandate from Obama. That fucker stole $500 of my money.
