Politico January 15, 2026
The president pointed the finger at insurers and pharma in calling for price cuts to help stressed voters.
Republicans finally have a health care plan.
Conservatives who sought free-market solutions to America’s exorbitant medical bills in an era before President Donald Trump, and struggled to come up with a plan to replace Obamacare in his first term, would be surprised to see what’s in it.
On Thursday, Trump unveiled a sweeping blueprint pressuring Congress to cement many of his executive actions on health care into law. Interspersed with invective aimed at longtime GOP allies in industry, the plan asks lawmakers to codify the administration’s deals with drugmakers to lower drug prices, to put taxpayer money in low-income people’s health savings...







