Trump's Healthcare Boondoggle: What Collapsed Plan Reveals — Breaking Points
Update: 2025-11-25
Description
A botched White House healthcare rollout exposes the real fault lines in U.S. health policy: politics favors subsidies over cost control. (Original episode: 14 minutes — Condensed summary: 2 minutes.)
Hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down why the Trump plan — a brief proposal to swap ACA tax credits for HSAs and extend subsidies — was withdrawn after Republican backlash, and why that move matters for millions facing rising premiums and deductibles. Learn the core takeaway: short-term subsidy fixes help now but won’t bend the long-term cost curve; meaningful reform must tackle prices, bargaining power, and transparency. Topics covered include the ACA, subsidies, Medicare for All contrasts, market failures, and drug pricing solutions.
Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
Hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down why the Trump plan — a brief proposal to swap ACA tax credits for HSAs and extend subsidies — was withdrawn after Republican backlash, and why that move matters for millions facing rising premiums and deductibles. Learn the core takeaway: short-term subsidy fixes help now but won’t bend the long-term cost curve; meaningful reform must tackle prices, bargaining power, and transparency. Topics covered include the ACA, subsidies, Medicare for All contrasts, market failures, and drug pricing solutions.
Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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