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Lawmaker urges directing health-subsidy payments to families, not insurers
Summary
A lawmaker quoted President Trump and urged that federal health-care subsidy funds go directly to patients rather than insurance companies, arguing insurers take '20% of it for profit and overhead' and that families still face 'multi-thousand-dollar' deductibles; the speaker called on Congress and the President to act.
A lawmaker said that federal health-care subsidy funds should be paid directly to patients rather than to insurance companies, arguing that the current arrangement reduces the money available for families and leaves them facing large out-of-pocket costs.
"Don't give the money to the insurance company. Give the money to the family," the lawmaker said, quoting President Trump and adding that "the insurance company takes 20% of it for profit and overhead. And by the way, the family is still left with a multi-thousand-dollar deductible." The speaker characterized that outcome as undermining affordability for American families.
The lawmaker endorsed the quoted remark as "the correct intuition," saying Congress must decide how to direct existing federal subsidies that help purchase employer-sponsored coverage. The speaker framed affordability as "the issue which is most pressing upon the American people" and urged lawmakers and the president to engage on the issue.
The speaker called on the President to "get engaged" and said elected officials "will be held accountable by those families" if they do not act. The transcript records no formal motion, vote, or legislative text in this exchange; it is a statement urging policy direction and political attention.
No committee, bill number, or statutory citation was provided in the remarks. The lawmaker did not specify a concrete plan in the recorded remarks for how to route subsidy payments to families or how such a change would be implemented, and the transcript does not record any response or rebuttal to the claim that insurers take 20% for overhead.
