So, what’s happening with Obamacare?
President Donald Trump this week elaborated more on how he would deal with health care subsidies and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), suggesting an account for citizens where payments can be made for health-related issues. Trump wrote in a Nov. 8 post on Truth Social that Senate Republicans should direct hundreds of billions in funding away from insurance companies and into people’s accounts, allowing them to purchase their own health insurance.
“Trump Proposes ‘Trumpcare’ Alternative to Obamacare; Sec. Rollins Says SNAP Benefits to Be Restored by Monday,” NTD News at The Epoch Times (November 16, 2025).
If this sounds awfully familiar — like the gist if not the wording of Bush Era medical-financial reforms — we may have to wait and see. But Obamacare long ago betrayed its promise of reducing healthcare costs overall. Might there be hope?
There will be more to come on this, here, but for now: what has the president actually said?
- November 8, 2025 (Truth Social post): Trump urged Senate Republicans to end ACA subsidies to “money sucking Insurance Companies” and instead “BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over.” He framed this as a way to “save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare.”
- November 11, 2025 (Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham): Trump elaborated slightly, suggesting Americans could “negotiate their own health insurance” with direct payments, calling it “so exciting, and dubbing it “Trumpcare” or “whatever you want to call it — anything but Obamacare!”
- November 13, 2025 (Bill signing event): He reiterated the plan, stating, “We’re gonna pay a lot of money to the people. They’re gonna go out and buy their own health care, and we’re gonna forget this Obamacare madness.”
One reply on “Trumpcare — or Whatever We Want to Call It”
What is needed is a road back from an order in which about 84% of funding for medical services is funneled through the state to one in which the state has no rôle in provision.
Trump, unfortunately, mistakes the nation for a corporation, sees the citizenry as employees, and imagines that corporation as providing a health-care plan for those employees. He has no sense that, on principle, the whole matter should be privatized.
And whatever programme results can very likely be hijacked by Democrats, when next they are in power, to arrive at what they originally sought from Obamacare — a programme inducing dependence on the part of most Americans, while slowly failing so that Democrats may repeatedly pose as rescuing those dependent Americans with reforms to keep it going.