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2026-09-03 01:03 UTC
Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget of the Whole Country’ | Common Dreams
US President Donald Trump railed against Medicare for All during an Oval Office event on Tuesday, falsely claiming the proposal would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective despite new research confirming it would save lives and cost significantly less than the corporate-dominated status quo.
The president’s remarks came during an event touting his limited, voluntary, and secretive agreements with leading pharmaceutical companies, deals purportedly aimed at lowering drug prices. Trump again lied by claiming that his efforts are “much bigger” than Medicare for All, which would provide comprehensive health coverage to every person in the US for free at the point of service, eliminating premiums, copays, and deductibles.
Trump said that Medicare for All, which has not been tried at a national level in the US, “doesn’t work,” falsely claiming a single-payer system would cost “the entire budget of the whole country” and send taxes into the stratosphere.
Even if it were true, such spending would be better than on endless wars and tax cuts for trillionaires. This kind of spending would also prevent the people spending on guillotines, especially with the ai displacing workers. They’re already threatening guillotines, so it’d be an investment in having a stable society if anything
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Imagine all the billions going to the military going into universal healthcare instead.
The USA would turn into the healthiest country of the whole planet in a matter of weeks.
People would actually want to go to the doctor and spend time in the hospital. The food would be better too.
And if that doesn’t blow your mind, imagine how much bigger that budget would be if there was no tax breaks for big companies either.
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What a blithering idiot.
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It might after every man,woman, child, and baby is poisoned by food and the environment. Which might already be true.
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Yet somehow almost every other country is able to do it. But we can’t do that and upset the insurance companies now can we
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That’s probably true — if it’s he that continues running the country.
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