What’s becoming increasingly clear is that the 2026 midterm election cycle will center on affordability.
Late last week, President Trump proposed a compromise on health insurance payments, calling on Republicans to send federal payments that would typically go to insurers under Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) directly to Americans to end the longest-ever government shutdown.
On Friday, the president posted on X that the insurance-industrial complex, aligned with the Democrats, has seen stock gains soar between 400% and nearly 1,200% since Obamacare was introduced. Meanwhile, the promise of lower healthcare costs under the ACA turned out to be an illusion, as Democrats pushed toward socialized healthcare while serving corporate interests first, not working-class families.
No one will ever be able to figure out this mystery of why insurance companies loved the idea of the ACA https://t.co/Vi9toi6hKH pic.twitter.com/XPezGadNfg
— Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD (@TonerousHyus) November 7, 2025
By Saturday morning, Trump posted another message on Truth Social, calling for redirecting federal funds that Democrats want to funnel into the bank accounts of big insurance companies, and instead sending those payments directly to Americans as a way not just to end the shutdown but fix the healthcare affordability crisis fueled by Obamacare. The president wrote:
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money-sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
On Saturday evening, Trump fired off another Truth Social post:
NO MORE MONEY, HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO THE DEMOCRAT-SUPPORTED INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR REALLY BAD OBAMACARE. THE MONEY MUST NOW GO DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, TAKING THE “FAT CAT” INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE. THE PEOPLE CAN BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER POLICY, FOR MUCH LESS MONEY, SAVING, FOR THEMSELVES, AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE!!! PRESIDENT DJT
And multiple posts on Sunday morning:
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PAY THE PEOPLE, NOT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES!
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OBAMACARE “SUCKS.” THE WORST HEALTHCARE FOR THE HIGHEST PRICE.
Trump’s Truth Social posting spree comes shortly after Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed a deal to reopen the government, one that includes funneling tens of billions of dollars into the bank accounts of big insurance companies.
What an absolute joke
Chuck Schumer’s new “compromise” to reopen the government is an extension of the Barack Obama Affordable Care Act
This is what its been about all along. Big Pharma getting our tax money
ACA is insanely expensive and a complete RIPOFF. Say NO pic.twitter.com/5vnjcSJ8kU
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 7, 2025
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., blasted Democrats:
Democrats want to keep the government closed until big insurance companies – whose stock prices have soared under Obamacare – get another $30 billion paid directly to them.
SenateGOP said NO! We want taxpayer money to go directly to American families.
Democrats want to keep the government closed until big insurance companies – whose stock prices have soared under Obamacare – get another $30 billion paid directly to them.@SenateGOP said NO! We want taxpayer money to go directly to American families.
Enough is enough. End the… pic.twitter.com/dk6pQy4yKO
— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) November 8, 2025
On X, healthcare professionals called for healthcare reforms:
President Trump gets it.
It’s time to fund individual HSA accounts and allow patients and physicians autonomy.
They tried with the ACA, it failed. Move on. @realDonaldTrump @POTUS pic.twitter.com/9wbRwwEroT
— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) November 8, 2025
From a practicing physician, this is the only way to save our healthcare system from the socialist single payer system that ACA sought to create
Insurance companies wrote ACA promising they would help administer future single payer system for govt
Time to reverse course STAT! https://t.co/m4rFXEAhgu
— Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS (@drdanchoi) November 8, 2025
ACA was a huge step towards single payer socialist healthcare in America. Central planning at its worst with tremendous waste and inefficiencies. For profit insurers took advantage of this!
Restore patient autonomy over their healthcare dollars. Let the free market decide… https://t.co/m4rFXEAhgu
— Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS (@drdanchoi) November 8, 2025
Democrats sell the American people on a socialist utopian dream that never works, and the illusions are piling up: the Affordable Care Act made healthcare unaffordable, the Inflation Reduction Act sparked worst inflation in a generation, social justice created new injustices, DEI policies proved neither diverse, equitable, nor inclusive, ANTIFA terrorist acts like fascists, and radical left’s warrior call “threats to democracy” are really threats to freedom.
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