Donald Trump has no idea what health insurance costs

[n2doc]

“In a short period of time,” President Trump recently told Time magazine in an interview about his first months in the White House, “I understood everything there was to know about health care.”

Around the same time, Trump gave another interview, this one to the Economist. He talked a lot about health care in it. And his comments suggest he still has a lot to learn — starting with how much health insurance actually costs.

Speaking with editors from the Economist, Trump seemed uncertain about how the health insurance industry works, or how the Republican plan to overhaul it would work. He waffled on how he’ll continue running the Affordable Care Act.

Trump cited numbers that don’t seem to come from any recent version of the health care debate. He talked about how health insurance ought to cost “$15 a month” — a premium that anyone who has ever purchased coverage, let alone studied the health insurance market, knows is unheard of.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/11/15624328/trump-health-insurance-costs

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Fifteen Bucks A Month Sounds About Right

In 1927.
At $180 dollars per year, if every person on the planet paid that premium, i would barely cover the health care expenditures for the United States. It would not cover it for the EU.

So, that premium translates to EVERYBODY individually buying in, but only covering about 8% of the population of earth

On Edit: I double counted some of the expenditures, so the above isn't accurate, but i stand by how easy it would be to make $15 per month sound utterly ridiculous.

[n2doc]

5. Well that probably scales down right

To having 330 million US citizens paying the health care for the 0.01% and their bought and paid for Pols.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Probably So

Problem is i now admit that my numbers are off because i doublecounted a decent portion of expenditures. (I counted premiums paid as part of the expenditure for care. That's not right.)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Hey! $15/mo for a good policy would be awesome!

Too bad it's just fantastical.

[JenniferJuniper]

3. 15 dollars, 15,000 dollars....

He has no idea what the difference is.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Trump can't read

The breadth of what Trump doesn't know is nearly infinite.

[MineralMan]

7. Donald Trump has no idea.

All you need is the first five words.

[izzybella]

8. My guess is that he goes to the doctor and

they never diagnose anything. They just quietly fix it, and then tell him that he is the healthiest person they have ever seen.

[Warpy]

9. No Republican, especially the ones in office, knows what much of anything costs

except their own house in their own area. They all seem to be stuck in the 1950s as far as how well people can live on a fat $7.25/hour. After all, you can rent a decent apartment for about $40/month. Groceries aren't going to cost that much as long as you don't insist on steak every night, right? And health insurance is always paid for by your job, so if you want it, just get a job. This is why they come out with howlers like being able to buy health insurance instead of a new phone, you libbies are just making dumb choices.

So the Big Baby saying health insurance should be $15/month fits right in, that's about what it was in 1956 or so.

[SamKnause]

10. Trump is so ignorant that he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. True, but he could catch it with a boot if it came from a Russian female.