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I just read his plan myself, and didn't find it all that compelling:

https://mailchi.mp/mail.whitehouse.gov/the-great-healthcare-plan

CALLING ON CONGRESS TO LOWER HEALTHCARE COSTS
Today, President Donald J. Trump is calling on Congress to enact
the Great Healthcare Plan, a comprehensive plan to lower drug
prices, lower insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies
accountable, and maximize price transparency.

LOWERING DRUG PRICES
Codifying the Most-Favored-Nation deals to get
Americans the same low prices for prescription drugs
that people in other countries pay.
Makes more verified safe pharmaceutical drugs
available for over-the-counter purchase lowering
healthcare costs and increasing consumer choice.

LOWERING INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Stops sending big insurance companies billions in
extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead
send that money directly to eligible Americans.
Saves taxpayers at least $36 billion and reduce the
most common Obamacare plan premiums by over
10% according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Ends the kickbacks paid by pharmacy benefit
managers (PBMs) to the large brokerage middlemen.

HOLDING BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE
Creates the "Plain English Insurance" Standard by
requiring health insurance companies to publish rate
and coverage in plain English-not industry jargon.
Requires health insurance companies to publish the
percentage of their revenues that are paid out to
claims versus overhead costs and profits.
Require health insurance companies to publish the
percentage of insurance claims they reject and
average wait times for routine care.

MAXIMIZE PRICE TRANSPARENCY
Requires any healthcare provider or insurer who
accepts Medicare or Medicaid to prominently post
their pricing and fees in their place of business.

I like the price transparency part, but that alone is not going to keep prices down.

What would work is making it easy for people to shop around for the price/quality combo that they find best.

And that would require giving exact cost statements to patients in advance of treatment, taking insurance into account.

And those statements must be INSTANTLY issued, without taking weeks or being subject to evasive maneuvers.

Make every provider instantly issue clear statements of exact to the penny total cost to the patient for any treatment, and hold them to it. Then people can shop and the market can work its magic.

I agree with some of the policy, but not the person. It would be nice to return to decorum. I'm in "wait and see" mode on this Donroe Doctorine.

Listening to him has always been a stream of consciousness. Having the leader of the free world seemingly blurt out whatever is on his mind and communicate by tweets (or whatever you call his social media posts) still takes some getting used to.

But it's been almost a decade if nothing but Trump, 24/7/365. From the moment he rode down that escalator (before then really, as he was on NY radio toying with the idea ahead of his announcement) to today it's been a wild ride.

I'd vote for him forever. The alternatives are too dire to contemplate.

Part of the driving the wedge into MAGA by the hysterical thrashing Euro powers is the attempt to make Trump look crazy (again) or to make it a personality contest. They have tried to characterize him as crazy every couple of months since 2015. As we see, some of the biggest traitors and most damaging personalities have the smoothie lying act down pat as they are trained. Trump is unfiltered, which I prefer.

If he resolves the election fraud, gets rid of the Fed, and returns money to real asset based rather than scrip, he will rank as the best of all the Presidents since the first.

GreaterNYCDude says

Having the leader of the free world seemingly blurt out whatever is on his mind and communicate by tweets (or whatever you call his social media posts) still takes some getting used to.

I see that as his best feature, something to treasure.

Most politicians feel robotic, run by remote control by powers we never see.

With Trump I feel he's (mostly) not under the control of anyone else, with two glaring exceptions:

1. Someone told him to never mention the millions of deaths from the mRNA jabs. Maybe the DoD, or Pfizer.
2. Someone told him he better not actually expose all of what Epstein was doing. Maybe Israel, or the NSA.

Others turned him into a gorilla; they spied on him, impeached him, stole an election from him, unjustly prosecuted him, shot him.

He doesn't give a fuck anymore.

I love what he's doing however.

Patrick says

2. Someone told him he better not actually expose all of what Epstein was doing. Maybe Israel, or the NSA.

Before Virginia Giuffre died allegedly due to suicide, she wrote a book that stated or implied Ehud Barak raped her.

Barak has claimed he has made millions (since around 2001) by consulting hedge funds, and I wonder how many of those hedge fund managers or owners were Epstein's "non-celebrity non-household name" clients.

clambo says

Others turned him into a gorilla; they spied on him, impeached him, stole an election from him, unjustly prosecuted him, shot him.

He doesn't give a fuck anymore.

I love what he's doing however.

I was thinking the same thing as Trump essentially reached a "fuck it" point as far as what has been thrown at him.

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But I see Trump trying to do as much as he can to undo the past damage from Obama and Birdbrain Biden.

He is figuratively trying to carefully-as-possible get the shot off before the shot clock shows 1 second left.

No health plan would or could possibly work. Until we get all of the Somalian pirates(also a metaphor for all of the crooks) out of our healthcare system. They lead it, head it, run it, and game it at every turn.
No health plan will be worth the pixels on the screen, until we get all of the Woke idiots out of working in our healthcare.
Our healthcare is broken from the offices of the insurance headquarters, to the waiting room in the clinics.
I wouldn't dare go to a Doctor or Hospital the way they are ran now, and the caliber of people that they employ.
I have greater faith in our food delivery service.

As for Trump fatigue, as I have said countless times, we don't elect drinking buddies. Unless you're a political class and chase asses to kiss. You wouldn't want to hang out for a minute with any politician.

Could you imagine a friend going to the store and asks you if you need anything. And you reply yeah, bring me a 12 pack of my favorite beer. But then he comes back proud of himself for bringing you back a super size bag of Blue Takis?
That's what Congress does to everyone year after year.

AD says

Before Virginia Giuffre died allegedly due to suicide, she wrote a book that stated or implied Ehud Barak raped her.

Her own family hated her, including her kids, which is why she committed suicide. She was also being sued by other girls for lying about her role in recruiting them. Husband filed for divorce and the kids only wanted to live with him and the court agreed, as rare in Australia as it is here

Her book is more like "I wanna be treated like royalty again like when I was young"

Always gonna be a ho
It's a truth that all men know

The Alternatives to Trump:

1. Light taping of the brakes by Establishment Conservatives who failed to prevent DEI, Transgender, Mass Migration, H1B abuse, Housing Bubbles, didn't fund a wall, yet allowed 40M illegals and tens of trillions in debt in despite control of the Purse most of the past 25 years. They want to lose on issues to panic people into donating, no incentive to win. Full on Marxism, but perhaps implementation is slowed 5%.

2. Full on Marxism.

I’m not fatigued. I want more focus on deportations and prosecutions.

Not this all over the place version that talks big, but delivers far less. I don’t care about Venezuela, Iran when our own house is on fire from fraud and invasion. I want people who brought them here, prosecuted.

And I’m fatigued from government so corrupt that bailing out markets and friends became so common place that it’s expected. Capitalism does not function with that kind of corruption.

I like waking up every day full of anticipation about what is the Trump administration gonna do today. I like the lack of decorum, the FAFO, the return of the USA as the true world power. Like the Democrats always say when confronted with individualism, “you were born lucky”. Yes I was and I want it to continue! I also enjoy watching the left squirm because they have no idea how to respond!

I think my username speaks for itself.

I'm not tired of winning!

itsAllBullshit - master of the strawman meme.

EDIT: now that Xir/Xer is trying to hide:

afh398h398h3f98fh3f98ahf983 - master of the strawman meme

@itsAllBullshit

Protecting your own and your children's bloodstream from poison injections is similar to protecting America from the poison injection of tens of millions of criminal aliens.

So in both cases, MAGA is 100% right and 100% consistent about it.

ICE is protecting the poorest US citizens from criminal aliens.

Criminal aliens drive down wages and drive up rents for the poorest Americans, profiting bosses and landlords.

Your indifference to the suffering of poor Americans is stunning.

Any real prosecutions would help. Watching expose after expose, while the vapid DOJ head sits in Florida, thinking up “hate speech” prosecutions — it’s too much.

Trump’s weakness is getting cocooned by yes-men (and women like Wiles), who lead him away from campaign promises. He should have retired Bondi in September already, or known based on her infamous Zimmerman prosecution, that she’d be worthless.

I would add, illegal or not, criminals are criminals and must be dealth with. And the only effective way is to be worse than them. I never bought in to the "taking the high road and not become like them" liberal BS. NO ! We become not like them, but worse than them !

Trump seems like a blowhard, but in reality we all know that when Trump gives a warning then acts.
The Activist Judges rule he didn't give sufficient warning and exhaust all of his pretty please cherry topped sundaes.

One stunning thing that has come to light. Trump is having his way 100% with ICE, because that was put into his Big Beautiful Bill, everyone bitched about him signing. Now that he has the funding, even a shutdown over a spending bill wouldn't kill the operation. Trump has Billions at his disposal. And it's burning the Establishment's ass.

goofus says

Any real prosecutions would help. Watching expose after expose, while the vapid DOJ head sits in Florida, thinking up “hate speech” prosecutions — it’s too much.

Trump’s weakness is getting cocooned by yes-men (and women like Wiles), who lead him away from campaign promises. He should have retired Bondi in September already, or known based on her infamous Zimmerman prosecution, that she’d be worthless.

Bondi beats 90% of the Democrat Lawfare suits on Policy, and that is important to me. Whether Trump should pressure her to get an Assnt DOJ Head who focuses on prosecutions? Probably.

Well, you could argue that Trump followed the problem, reaction solution mode himself. In spite of being in charge at least the most important military and having the football throughout the disastrous Biden Actor Autopen administration, it is alleged that he couldn't take action until the grim and dire manifestations of misrule became obvious to a healthy majority of the population.

The educational experience has been bracing and frightening in equal measure.

However, none of this matters without resolute action. The balancing act is a mystical conundrum.

Trump is St. George declaring the Second Declaration of Independence and spearing the Dragon of the City of London and its tentacles. That dragon never wanted to be identified, but only wanted the distraction of it's various shape shifting proxies to be visible.

It's a massive and dangerous task, and by report, has been prepared for decades ever since the dragon became fully manifest with the assassination of JFK.

stereotomy says

itsAllBullshit - master of the strawman meme.

That depends. Do you think the government has the right to kill people who don't comply?

I think you sound like the leftoids you made fun of 6 years ago and that meme pisses you off because it's true.

Patrick says

ICE is protecting the poorest US citizens from criminal aliens.

In the majority of enforcement and deportation cases the people had a legal right to be here under US law. And in multiple cases now are US Citizens. The government prosecutes the poorest, and ICE is no exception, because they are vulnerable, and cannot defend themselves.

Patrick says

Your indifference to the suffering of poor Americans is stunning.

You live in a city that disappeared all the homeless for a Chinese despot, what did you do about it? You retired at 40 something, and live in one of the highest income areas of the country. What the fuck do you know about how regular people live?

I've lived a good part of my life in a high rent market, but I lived in blue collar neighborhoods. I saw them falling apart since the financial implosion of 2008. And no one in our government gave a shit then or now.

We have record unemployment, send billions of dollars overseas to foreign governments, host terrorists at the White House, call people names when they bring up the Epstein list, spend billions on an offensive (in every sense) military budget to bomb innocent civilians around the globe, and you have the fucking balls to talk about indifference.

Where I live now the average income is $60,000 a year. I live with the people you claim to know, every day, and none of us want anything to do with ICE or any other asshole DHS. I've lived on the Southern border over 20 years, you've never lived here one day. I interact with Immigration regularly, you don't. You don't know me, my neighbors, my region, or our problems. You're just another arrogant racist asshole pretending at what we live.

Go ahead and ban me, will prove you've thrown your last ounce of morality in the trash, forsaking the one ideal you still claim to support. Why kind of a hypocrite claims to be for free speech when his president threatens people with deportation for talking against Israel?

You always said memes were good because they were hard to argue with. Your reaction proves you're still right. But now you're the clown getting memed. Maybe you'll finally develop some sympathy for the lefties you made fun of all these years once you finally realize you're all sick.

Tenpoundbass says

One stunning thing that has come to light. Trump is having his way 100% with ICE, because that was put into his Big Beautiful Bill, everyone bitched about him signing. Now that he has the funding, even a shutdown over a spending bill wouldn't kill the operation. Trump has Billions at his disposal. And it's burning the Establishment's ass.

Yes, I bitched too, but I'm super happy he got all that money for ICE now.

TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

goofus says

Any real prosecutions would help. Watching expose after expose, while the vapid DOJ head sits in Florida, thinking up “hate speech” prosecutions — it’s too much.

Trump’s weakness is getting cocooned by yes-men (and women like Wiles), who lead him away from campaign promises. He should have retired Bondi in September already, or known based on her infamous Zimmerman prosecution, that she’d be worthless.

Bondi beats 90% of the Democrat Lawfare suits on Policy, and that is important to me. Whether Trump should pressure her to get an Assnt DOJ Head who focuses on prosecutions? Probably.

I’ve seen Matt Gaetz credit her with the lawfare rebuttals, too. But a 6-3 SC certainly helps.

DOJ should be able to defend EOs and prosecute. Biking while chewing gum, nothing groundbreaking.

goofus says

I’ve seen Matt Gaetz credit her with the lawfare rebuttals, too. But a 6-3 SC certainly helps.

Would never be confirmed: The House Investigation was damning.

No way he could enforce the Sex Trafficking crackdown the WH wants.

"Rent help Jan+Feb"
"Wam!"
"Medicine"
"Love You"
"tuition"
"Easter bunny"
"Ask for (money) while giving (Matt) a BJ"
"NYC WAM!"
https://ethics.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Gaetz-Appendix-B-Part-1.pdf
https://ethics.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Gaetz-Appendix-B-Part-2.pdf

Seems like $400 (pre-COVID) was the going rate.

I thought it was Bullshit. Matt was indeed getting down with cash and perhaps powdering his nose too.

Patrick says

Yes, I bitched too, but I'm super happy he got all that money for ICE now.

So far Trump's 2nd admin had formally deported around 630,000 and 1.9 million have self-deported such as using the CBP app to self deport and receive $1000 and a free ticket.

That is about 10% of total undocumented immigrants in the USA.

Criminal aliens, please.

Patrick says

Criminal aliens, please.

My guess is Trump admin is predominantly going after those that committed crimes or have deportation orders while awaiting their status for a green card, asylum, etc.

stereotomy says

itsAllBullshit - master of the strawman meme.

Can't find this user on PatNet

MolotovCocktail says

itsAllBullshit - master of the strawman meme.

Can't find this user on PatNet

maybe renamed as user " afh398h398h3f98fh3f98ahf983 "

AD says

maybe renamed as user " afh398h398h3f98fh3f98ahf983 "

Maybe look on BotFarms Anonymous.

Ceffer says

Maybe look on BotFarms Anonymous.

Chicom bot farm ?

MolotovCocktail says

stereotomy says

itsAllBullshit - master of the strawman meme.

Can't find this user on PatNet

Search function on p.net sucks hairy monkey balls.

No politician is coming to save you.

afh398h398h3f98fh3f98ahf983 says

You always said memes were good because they were hard to argue with

You are pretending your meme makes any sense.

Patrick says

Tenpoundbass says

One stunning thing that has come to light. Trump is having his way 100% with ICE, because that was put into his Big Beautiful Bill, everyone bitched about him signing. Now that he has the funding, even a shutdown over a spending bill wouldn't kill the operation. Trump has Billions at his disposal. And it's burning the Establishment's ass.

Yes, I bitched too, but I'm super happy he got all that money for ICE now.

Same, ICE is the only part of the bill I liked.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Yes, I bitched too, but I'm super happy he got all that money for ICE now.

Same, ICE is the only part of the bill I liked.

Well wait until you see him take command of the Midterm Election in November, and the power he will have to prevent industrial fraud.