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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:32 AM Jul 2017

Donald Trump thinks, health-insurance costs $12 a year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-health-insurance-cost_us_597042f3e4b062ea5f8f2430?section=us_politics

“So pre-existing conditions are a tough deal. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 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, you’re 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 you’re 70, and you really need it, you’re still paying the same amount and that’s really insurance,” he said in the May interview.




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It is speculated that Trump mixed up health-insurance and life-insurance.
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mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
1. So why is he trying to do away with it?
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:37 AM
Jul 2017

He has already made it drop from 15 a month to 12 a month. Seems pretty affordable to me.

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
3. So what Trump is advocting is a single payer
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:48 AM
Jul 2017

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.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,158 posts)
6. Even Sarah Palin had more of a clue about life, and learnt more before opening her mouth
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 09:41 AM
Jul 2017

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)
7. I had one of those fake insurance policies in college and even it was 350$ a year
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 10:11 AM
Jul 2017

Out of touch or out of mind?

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