Trump announces 'Great Healthcare Plan' focused on lower costs and citizen benefits

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump unveiled a new policy called 'The Great Healthcare Plan' on Thursday, January 15, that would make healthcare affordable by putting the needs of Americans first, instead of the needs of big corporations and special interests. 

Trump announced that due to the new policy, the price of prescription drugs and medicines would decrease by 500%. 

Trump calls Obamacare the ‘Unaffordable Care Act’

During the speech unveiling the new policy, Donald Trump said that he planned to reduce the American citizens’ insurance premiums by stopping government payoffs to big insurance companies.

He added that he aimed to send that money to the people, unlike the healthcare plan previously designed by former President Barack Obama.

“Obamacare was designed to make insurance companies rich. I call it the Unaffordable Care Act,” Trump said.

The president added that through Obamacare, insurance companies were able to increase their prices by over 1,700% with “billions of dollars and taxpayer subsidies.”

He claimed that due to the same reason, Americans paid more money for healthcare every year as the premiums went higher. 

He added that he wanted to end the “flagrant scam” and put extra money into the healthcare savings accounts in people’s names. The president told people they could buy their own healthcare, and for less money than they were paying before. 

Donald Trump also stated that to reduce insurance premiums further, the administration planned to end the “giant kickbacks” to insurance brokers and corporate middlemen who drove up the cost.

“The Great Healthcare Plan, it’s great healthcare at a lower price, mandates unprecedented accountability and transparency from insurance companies and all healthcare providers so that special interests can no longer profiteer at your expense,” Trump said.

The White House website stated that under the new policy, Donald Trump had ordered insurance companies to publish rate and coverage comparisons as part of transparency. 

The statement read that insurance companies needed to let Americans know how much of the money was going to be used in payout claims and how much they were using as profits.

Karoline Leavitt comments on Trump’s new healthcare plan

During a press conference held the same day the plan was unveiled, Karoline Leavitt told the press that the plan was put in place to enable everyone with healthcare to enjoy lower costs.

She said they would see more transparency and explained that all the proposals in 'The Great Healthcare Plan' were “incredibly popular” with the American public.

She added that new plan would impact everyone who had healthcare and not just those who were in the healthcare marketplace. 

“Every single American will continue to see their cost go down,” Leavitt added.

The press secretary further stated that the cost of medicines had already been decreased, and reminded the press that representatives from big pharmaceutical companies were in the Oval Office, praising Trump’s relentlessness to lower the price of medicines.