{"id":29186,"date":"2017-05-12T05:39:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T05:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2017-05-12T05:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T05:39:27","slug":"donald-trump-thinks-health-insurance-costs-15-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/donald-trump-thinks-health-insurance-costs-15-month.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump thinks health insurance costs $15 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Donald Trump thinks health insurance costs $15 a month<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">onald Trump appears to believe that health insurance only costs $15 a month. It is a stunningly wrong assessment of an economic issue that affects millions of Americans.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">It also might help explain why he thinks his plan to repeal Obamacare, which would be a disaster for millions of Americas, is such a great idea. When it comes to health insurance, like so many other subjects, he simply has no idea what he&rsquo;s talking about.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In an interview with The Economist, Trump described insurance as something that would cost &ldquo;$15 a month for the rest of your life&rdquo;:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The state governments are in much better position to, you know, help people. In terms of, you know, just the size, the mere size of it. But we&rsquo;re putting in $8bn and you&rsquo;re going to have absolute coverage. You&rsquo;re going to have absolute guaranteed coverage. You&rsquo;re going to have it if you&rsquo;re a person going in&hellip;don&rsquo;t forget, this was not supposed to be the way insurance works.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Insurance is, you&rsquo;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&rsquo;re 70, and you really need it, you&rsquo;re still paying the same amount and that&rsquo;s really insurance.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">As anyone who is responsible for paying for health care knows, it certainly costs more than $15 per month.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Recent data indicates that average monthly health insurance premiums are closer to $235 dollars, which is roughly 1,566 percent higher than what Trump asserted..<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Being this out of touch on such a vital issue may explain why Trump is pushing his plan to repeal Obamacare, the so-called American Health Care Act, which would strip health insurance from 24 million and reintroduce the pre-existing condition.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/shareblue.com\/donald-trump-thinks-health-insurance-costs-15-a-month\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/donald-trump-thinks-health-insurance-costs-15-month.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump thinks health insurance costs $15 a month onald Trump appears to believe that health insurance only costs $15 a month. It is a stunningly wrong assessment of an economic issue that affects millions of Americans. 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