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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump thinks, health-insurance costs $12 a year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-health-insurance-cost_us_597042f3e4b062ea5f8f2430?section=us_politicsSo pre-existing conditions are a tough deal. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, youre 21 years old, you start working and youre paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time youre 70, you get a nice plan.
The notion of paying $12 a year for health insurance is even less than the $15 per month number Trump floated in an interview with the Economist earlier this year.
Insurance is, youre 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time youre 70, and you really need it, youre still paying the same amount and thats really insurance, he said in the May interview.
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It is speculated that Trump mixed up health-insurance and life-insurance.
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)He has already made it drop from 15 a month to 12 a month. Seems pretty affordable to me.
Raven
(13,872 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)pool where everyone pays into. His numbers are off, but that is what he is proposing. No insurance company will ever offer that level of stability. There is still nothing in it at the end either.
In effect that is what traditional large company plans do now with the cost shared between the employer and employee. The problem is if you lose your job and can't get another with health benefits.
spanone
(135,637 posts)enough
(13,237 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)This is gold-standard idiocy. It's from an entitled know-nothing who's lived his entire life in a bubble where he hasn't had to budget for any personal expenditure. He's always had someone to buy food for him, pay his bills.
Does he hold a drivers' license, by the way? Or has he always had chauffeurs?
Johonny
(20,684 posts)Out of touch or out of mind?