Trump: Obamacare Is A Scam To Make Insurance Companies Rich
President Donald Trump talked to reporters on Air Force One on Tuesday en route to a rally in Pennsylvania.
REPORTER: Mr. President, Senators Cassidy and Crapo have introduced a bill to create health savings accounts to replace Obamacare subsidies. Do you support that bill? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I like the concept. I don’t want to give the insurance companies any money they’ve been ripping off the public for years. Obamacare is a scam to make the insurance company rich. The company is rich, and they have made, I mean, you look, a $ 1,400 to $ 1,700 increase, 100% increase over the last number of years. There’s really few things that have gone up like insurance companies. They’re getting numbers and money like nobody’s ever seen before. Billions and billions of dollars is paid directly to insurance companies. We’re not going to do that anymore. I believe Obamacare was set up to take care of insurance companies, not to take care of the American public. Do you want Republicans to vote for that bill tomorrow? I love the idea of money going directly to the people, not to the insurance companies, going directly to the people. It could be in the health savings account. It could be a number of different ways. And the people go out and buy their own insurance, which can be really much better, health insurance, health care.
