“[It] forces manufacturers to compete on efficiency and value rather than political leverage”. This is where the rubber meets the road. Political leverage is aka grift, bribery, and the explanation for how Senators can afford to spend $100 million on a single election campaign. They consider the payola from Big Pharma essential to their competitiveness, as well as their ability to buy loyalty from pollsters, influencers and other participants in the election process. Codifying Trump’s plan depends on Republicans, particularly in the Senate, voluntarily giving up the Big Pharma $$$ that greatly benefits them personally, in exchange for a benefit to their constituents. I can’t name a single Republican Senator who would make that bargain. Sure, leadership will instruct some of them to “vote their conscience” (eye roll), but those who have elections in 26 and 28 will pick the pharma cash every single time.
So much of Trump’s effort and agenda will go down the drain because of greedy bastards allegedly on “our” team. Wish Trump could pull campaign finance reform and term limits out of his hat. He’s good, but not that good.
Just like Congress has done nothing to Repeal Obamacare as they’d promised to do in order to get elected for over a decade, and never, ever even bothered to come up with any kind of alternative either, along with their consistent obstruction of Trump’s agenda this time around - again - believing this will have any better results from them is like believing in unicorns at this point.
What we are witnessing from our own party is tantamount to utter betrayal of both their constituents and their oaths. They repulse me.
They should pass it tomorrow—but they won’t, because accountability terrifies Congress more than high prices terrify patients. This plan guts the racket: drug companies lose price discrimination, insurers lose subsidy capture, PBMs lose their shadow tollbooths, hospitals lose the ability to hide prices like state secrets. That’s not bipartisan reform; that’s institutional heresy. Members of Congress talk about “healthcare affordability” while cashing checks from the very intermediaries this plan exposes. Trump’s proposal is simple, brutal, and effective: show prices, kill kickbacks, let patients choose. Which is exactly why it’s DOA on Capitol Hill. A system this broken survives only because lawmakers keep pretending it can’t be fixed.
“Critics often respond that such an approach risks [medical] innovation. But this objection confuses incentives. Innovation depends on expected returns across global markets, not on extracting monopoly rents from one population while offering discounts to another.” Just like the naysayers who refused to understand that tariffs could be absorbed by manufacturers while still making a profit possible, Trump has turned markets around so American consumers are being protected from unreasonable and highly inflationary pressures. Trump is a brilliant economist!
Not rushed at all. Project 2025 through Heritage Foundation was a plan started during Trump’s first administration to bring about conservative priorities for lowering the cost of insurance and increase choice in coverage. President Trump has prioritized healthcare because he saw how premiums climbed after Obamacare was implemented. Here is some of the work he did during his first administration on healthcare reform. https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/look-back-trumps-health-care-reforms
I thought Trump didn't know anything about Project 2025? And very recently any thoughts on healthcare reform were 'thoughts' and 'a concept' of an idea. Nothing concrete.
President Trump didn’t author it or know the details of it however Heritage enlisted the help of a Trump policymaker for advice on the medical care portion of it. You have to understand that Project 2025 was a far ranging strategic plan for the conservative ideas that included Trump’s previous work on many important issues.
Yes, I am aware that Project 2025 was a huge production to revise pretty much every part of America's government. I also know that numerous (140) of the authors and contributors were part of Trump's first Administration. For Trump to have acted like he didn't know what was in there is farcical. Even so, just a few months ago, this supposed fix was just a Concept. He said in 2016, ACA would be replaced and has made similar comments ever since, with no details. I actually hope it (whatever it is) works, as something needs to.
Trump didn’t know what Heritage Project 2025 outlined because Trump is his own “think tank,” and didn’t care what the so-called political class thought. Unfortunately, your president, Biden, was not capable of claiming the ability to think critically on important issues.
The idea that Trump was not kept informed of what all these people wanted in new administration either means he was deliberately kept in the dark or ? Or he was simply lying because that is his nature.
When a person decides to change healthcare insurance plans between October and December, they file paperwork and are accepted by the new Insurance company. The previous Healthcare provider takes the regular premium out of the insured’s account for the month of January in the new year. Why are they allowed to do this? Then the person has to go through the ridiculously difficult process to get the money returned.
Second, a person that does not take any prescription drugs is forced to enroll in a Healthcare plan that includes prescription drug coverage. There are no other options available unless you were in a branch of the Armed Services. If the person opts out of prescription coverage when first enrolling in Medicare, then is forced into a plan that has drug coverage, that person is fined every month for the rest of their life for drug coverage that they do not intend to use. Again, why is this allowed?
“[It] forces manufacturers to compete on efficiency and value rather than political leverage”. This is where the rubber meets the road. Political leverage is aka grift, bribery, and the explanation for how Senators can afford to spend $100 million on a single election campaign. They consider the payola from Big Pharma essential to their competitiveness, as well as their ability to buy loyalty from pollsters, influencers and other participants in the election process. Codifying Trump’s plan depends on Republicans, particularly in the Senate, voluntarily giving up the Big Pharma $$$ that greatly benefits them personally, in exchange for a benefit to their constituents. I can’t name a single Republican Senator who would make that bargain. Sure, leadership will instruct some of them to “vote their conscience” (eye roll), but those who have elections in 26 and 28 will pick the pharma cash every single time.
So much of Trump’s effort and agenda will go down the drain because of greedy bastards allegedly on “our” team. Wish Trump could pull campaign finance reform and term limits out of his hat. He’s good, but not that good.
Just like Congress has done nothing to Repeal Obamacare as they’d promised to do in order to get elected for over a decade, and never, ever even bothered to come up with any kind of alternative either, along with their consistent obstruction of Trump’s agenda this time around - again - believing this will have any better results from them is like believing in unicorns at this point.
What we are witnessing from our own party is tantamount to utter betrayal of both their constituents and their oaths. They repulse me.
They should pass it tomorrow—but they won’t, because accountability terrifies Congress more than high prices terrify patients. This plan guts the racket: drug companies lose price discrimination, insurers lose subsidy capture, PBMs lose their shadow tollbooths, hospitals lose the ability to hide prices like state secrets. That’s not bipartisan reform; that’s institutional heresy. Members of Congress talk about “healthcare affordability” while cashing checks from the very intermediaries this plan exposes. Trump’s proposal is simple, brutal, and effective: show prices, kill kickbacks, let patients choose. Which is exactly why it’s DOA on Capitol Hill. A system this broken survives only because lawmakers keep pretending it can’t be fixed.
Absolutely
Yes, totally agree. Will it be disruptive? Yes. Will it be effective? Yes. Much like Trump himself.
Our healthcare systems and insurance schemes are broken today, and NOBODY trusts them. This will fix that, and in short order.
“Critics often respond that such an approach risks [medical] innovation. But this objection confuses incentives. Innovation depends on expected returns across global markets, not on extracting monopoly rents from one population while offering discounts to another.” Just like the naysayers who refused to understand that tariffs could be absorbed by manufacturers while still making a profit possible, Trump has turned markets around so American consumers are being protected from unreasonable and highly inflationary pressures. Trump is a brilliant economist!
Great article explaining Trump’s healthcare plan to easily understand the reasons why it would benefit us all.
It might have good points, but it was rushed together in about one month, so really hard to think it is thoughtfully put together.
Not rushed at all. Project 2025 through Heritage Foundation was a plan started during Trump’s first administration to bring about conservative priorities for lowering the cost of insurance and increase choice in coverage. President Trump has prioritized healthcare because he saw how premiums climbed after Obamacare was implemented. Here is some of the work he did during his first administration on healthcare reform. https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/look-back-trumps-health-care-reforms
I thought Trump didn't know anything about Project 2025? And very recently any thoughts on healthcare reform were 'thoughts' and 'a concept' of an idea. Nothing concrete.
President Trump didn’t author it or know the details of it however Heritage enlisted the help of a Trump policymaker for advice on the medical care portion of it. You have to understand that Project 2025 was a far ranging strategic plan for the conservative ideas that included Trump’s previous work on many important issues.
Yes, I am aware that Project 2025 was a huge production to revise pretty much every part of America's government. I also know that numerous (140) of the authors and contributors were part of Trump's first Administration. For Trump to have acted like he didn't know what was in there is farcical. Even so, just a few months ago, this supposed fix was just a Concept. He said in 2016, ACA would be replaced and has made similar comments ever since, with no details. I actually hope it (whatever it is) works, as something needs to.
Trump didn’t know what Heritage Project 2025 outlined because Trump is his own “think tank,” and didn’t care what the so-called political class thought. Unfortunately, your president, Biden, was not capable of claiming the ability to think critically on important issues.
The idea that Trump was not kept informed of what all these people wanted in new administration either means he was deliberately kept in the dark or ? Or he was simply lying because that is his nature.
Two things I would like to see change:
When a person decides to change healthcare insurance plans between October and December, they file paperwork and are accepted by the new Insurance company. The previous Healthcare provider takes the regular premium out of the insured’s account for the month of January in the new year. Why are they allowed to do this? Then the person has to go through the ridiculously difficult process to get the money returned.
Second, a person that does not take any prescription drugs is forced to enroll in a Healthcare plan that includes prescription drug coverage. There are no other options available unless you were in a branch of the Armed Services. If the person opts out of prescription coverage when first enrolling in Medicare, then is forced into a plan that has drug coverage, that person is fined every month for the rest of their life for drug coverage that they do not intend to use. Again, why is this allowed?
This needs to change!
Sadly, I won't be the first to observe that sentences starting with "Congress should" describe things that are unlikely to occur.
Well said, amuse. You demonstrate transparency yourself with your prose.
Yes absolutely!❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸