Rep. Byron Donalds

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Bloomberg Talks · Rep. Byron Donalds Talks US Shutdown, ACA Subsidies · 11 Nov 2025 podcast

That's crazy.

We've created a two-tier system in healthcare.

So I would tell the American people, this is not simply about subsidies for Obamacare.

It is about providing real solutions that put patients first.

So we have a healthcare system and a healthcare insurance marketplace that people can afford and be able to access healthcare readily in their communities.

Well, I think there's parts of what you're saying are true, some that'll have to be worked on.

I think the premise of the president laying out is the correct one.

Look at any industry in our economy.

The ones where people have direct purchasing power to go to companies and buy the product they're looking for, those prices are actually increasing lower than the rate of inflation.

But when you bring in these other issues, these other areas where the government is doing direct subsidies, that's where the prices are completely out of control.

And so for me, the situation is clear.

The situation is clear.

You have to put people at the front of the line.

They gotta be able to make those purchasing decisions.

If it's giving those dollars directly to the individual, that will work.

Now, to your question around risk pools, this is essential in all insurance.

We could look at setting up geographic risk pools as an idea so that people in that community or in that state can actually be dealing with the insurance companies, but the insurance companies actually have a defined risk pool.

This is one of the reasons why large companies have cheaper insurance than when people are just going into the marketplace by themselves because they're using the risk profile of working for that company to set up the risk pool to where then the actuaries kind of decide how much is the cost to insure each person in that pool.

There's ways to do this, but the Obamacare way has been a disaster.

It is now proven and the costs are out of control.

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