• IndridCold@lemmy.caOP
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    “I want instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people, where the people buy their own health insurance. It’s so good. The insurance will be better. It’ll cost less. Everybody’s gonna be happy. They’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs,” Trump said during a Fox News interview Monday night. “They’re actually gonna be able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance. And they can use it only for that reason, that’s the beauty—only for that purpose.

    So his idea for healthcare is… you use money to buy health insurance on the public market?

    He’s a fucking genius!

    I have to apologize for all the things I’ve said about Trump over the year. America, you are in good hands.

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      … Instead of money going to insurance companies, it goes into a fund, where people can buy insurance using it… from insurance companies? So the money instead of going to insurance companies goes to… Insurance companies.

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      I think by “buy their own health insurance,” he means they can get their own health coverage. Basically, a health savings account like they have existed for decades.

      I look forward to the day when people start calling around ten different ambulance companies to negotiate the best price to get them to the hospital, after calling ten hospitals to find out which one has the best deals. Maybe 911 can add an ad-supported service for that? “We have a special for shooting victims tonight!”

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        “Are y’all shooting people, or helping people who have been shot? Because this past Easter…”