Trump Is So Rich He Thinks Health Insurance Costs $12 Per Year stat : Newsweek

Related: Trump tells GOP senators not to leave town until health care is resolved"But what it does, Maggie, it means it gets tougher and tougher," replied Trump. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you're 21 years old, you start working and you're paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you're 70, you get a nice plan. Daily Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inboxIt's unclear if Trump actually thinks a 21-year-old can get health insurance for $12 a year, but that's what he said. Four years later, Mitt Romney casually tried to bet Rick Perry $10,000 he didn't favor individual health care mandates, drawing criticism that he was out of touch with the financial burdens of many Americans. Health care was a focal point of the Times interview, as well, and when reporter Maggie Haberman expressed to Trump how difficult it is to take away an entitlement, the president revealed just how little he understands the health care system.




"I know a lot about health care," Trump declared later on in the interview. Life insurance has much lower premiums than health insurance. Trump's comments on Wednesday do not mark the first time he has radically misstated the average costs associated with health care. When asked about health care during an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, this is how he responded:So pre-existing conditions are a tough deal. He provided a similar quote to The Economist in May, in which he said health care should cost about $15 per person per month.

Trump Doesn't Know How Much Health Insurance Costs

However, as several people pointed out on Twitter, it appears that Trump might be confusing health insurance with life insurance. The interview includes several eye-opening tidbits about what the president's thinking, including the idea that health insurance costs $12 a year. It's completely bananas that a president trying to gut health coverage thinks it's like term life insurance. RelatedSo yes, it looks like the president doesn't understand how heath insurance works or how much it actually costs, yet he still wants to dismantle Obamacare. The partial transcript of the interview was published by The New York Times on July 19.


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