Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Monday, November 17th. Happy Monday folks. President Trump's some big news out of the White House this afternoon, unveiling a revolutionary plan to eviscerate the disastrous Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and slam the brakes on the bloated insurance cartels and their endless gravy trains.

President Trump announced that he's been holding private talks with Democrat lawmakers

about completely gutting Obamacare and redirecting the hundreds of billions of dollars

in federal health care subsidies straight back to the American people.

Isn't that something President Trump working for the American people?

Big Pharma can't be happy about this while speaking with reporters last night.

President Trump revealed that he's actively discussing a full-on repeal of the disastrous

Obamacare, and he's even getting some Marxist Dems to go along with him?

That's a president who can work both sides of the aisle.

Take a listen to President Trump just last night.

I've had personal talks with some Democrats. I can't tell you who they are. I just don't

want to do that. It's not fair to them about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people.

You know, this was my idea.

It came up during that, you know, oftentimes in, under times of stress, like the shutdown,

you come up with great ideas that you wouldn't have thought of before.

The insurance companies are making a fortune.

Their stock is up over a thousand percent over a short period of time.

They are taken in hundreds of billions of dollars, and they're not really putting it back,

certainly not like they should.

So when I see this, and when I've seen this over the last pretty short period of time,

I said, why do we just pay this money directly to the people

of our country and let them buy their own health insurance? And you know, I made that statement

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