A Moment Of Clarity: Trump's Healthcare Affordability Hoax: What It Means for Your Wallet

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

History, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Michael Steele reveals the stark realities of rising healthcare costs and the disconnect between political rhetoric and everyday life where the facade of affordability is challenged by the harsh truth faced by many Americans.

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0:00.0	And now for a moment of clarity.
0:06.2	We understand that our health care costs are going to double, triple, or quadruple next year.
0:12.9	And I don't think this one is going to work.
0:17.7	So I agree with you on that. And I want to take up that challenge, if you will, because the thing that struck me about that event, that hour and a half of Donald Trump doing Trump, right, with the people behind him.
0:36.5	Yes.
0:37.3	Standing there, smiling, applauding, laughing. right with the people behind him yes standing there smiling applauding laughing at their own problems
0:44.0	he's talking about you standing behind him when he says affordability is a hoax you left that
0:53.4	event when home sat down and tried to figure out
0:56.0	how are you going to pay for Christmas? Because you just got to notice that your insurance
1:01.7	just went up. Not by $100, but $3,000. And in some cases, a month.
1:18.8	And yet you stood on that stage behind that man who told you that it's all a joke. It's all a farce.
1:20.0	So how does this play then in real time, in real life for people, when that reality, outside of the cameras, outside of the whooping and the hooping and all of that with Donald Trump, they go home and they sit down and go, baby, I just don't know what we're going to do.
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