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Trump Healthcare BOONDOGGLE Collapses Before Launch

2025-11-25 News & Politics
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Trump Administration Halts Healthcare Plan Unveiling Amid Congressional Backlash

Discover why the Trump administration abruptly canceled its planned healthcare proposal and analyze the deeper systemic failures across both parties regarding controlling spiraling medical costs.

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  • The White House abruptly postponed announcing a new healthcare framework due to strong backlash from Republican members of Congress.
  • The proposal centered on temporarily extending expiring ACA subsidies, a move critics argue avoids addressing core cost drivers.
  • Both major parties are criticized for focusing on subsidies rather than implementing structural reforms like price controls or comprehensive coverage models.

This discussion breaks down the political maneuverings surrounding the collapse of Trump’s last-minute healthcare announcement and critiques the bipartisan failure to tackle runaway healthcare inflation and premiums.

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Top Comments (10)

@livefree1030 2025-11-25

Eliminate Private Equity from Healthcare

571 50 replies
@TeaWithBud 2025-11-25

The fundamental problem with Trumpcare is that Trump doesn't care.

418 21 replies
@glumdrop4672 2025-11-25

They've spent decades telling us that healthcare = communism, and then wonder why people are turning against capitalism

417 53 replies
@dramonmaster222 2025-11-25

So.... Basically they have NO plan.

276 27 replies
@asmrgamer9823 2025-11-25

Almost like the answer is single payer universal healthcare. Weird.

263 67 replies
@AJSeese 2025-11-25

I'm an American. My wife is American/Thai. We own a small business here in the US and don't have health insurance. We go Thailand every year for 3 months to get our health check ups. Recently, here in the US, I worked out kinda hard and ended up injuring my knee. Got something called a Baker's Cyst behind my knee and couldn't bend it for 2 weeks. I went to the hospital. I asked for an MRI and I'm paying out of pocket. They told me that in order to get an MRI, I'm forced to get an Xray. Even though I'm paying out of pocket. I ended up paying over $3000 for an x-ray, ultrasound, and MRI just for the doctor to say, "you have massive swelling, but can't see why." And then left it at that. I could've bought a round trip ticket to Thailand and had all the same procedures for less, and be in the Sun... What a waste of time and money!!

201 14 replies
@vistea1 2025-11-25

I'm betting my entire imaginary tarrif refund check that a health care plan and the GOP will come in "two weeks".

139 3 replies
@deveousdevil 2025-11-25

Hey Saagar, the cost of Healthcare WILL NOT GO DOWN as long as there are insurance companies extracting BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for PROFIT. Money that could go to care or lower costs is being funneled to CEOs and shareholders. Only a single payer system can end this.

128 7 replies
@rpr355 2025-11-25

Medicare for all!!....Insurance in America is a scam. Health Care in USA is IMMORAL !!

126 4 replies
@zzzzzz11123 2025-11-25

Health insurance companies add zero value to healthcare, but they take 1/3 of the money. You do realize they have also privatized meidcare, which is no longer free at all. Everyone in congress has the best paid healthcare, as usual they do not really give a shit.

84 5 replies

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