{"id":11753,"date":"2026-03-03T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11753"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:09:16","slug":"why-trumps-cash-for-healthcare-idea-likely-wouldnt-work-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11753","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s \u2018Cash for Healthcare\u2019 Idea Likely Wouldn\u2019t Work in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/trump-healthcare-affordability-payer-insurance\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump proposed cutting out insurers and giving Americans cash to buy their own healthcare, claiming it would lower costs. Ali Diab, an economist and CEO of Collective Health, said the plan overlooks the real problem: concentrated payer power, opaque pricing and the financial risk people face without insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/trump-healthcare-affordability-payer-insurance\/\">Why Trump\u2019s \u2018Cash for Healthcare\u2019 Idea Likely Wouldn\u2019t Work in Practice<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Trump proposed cutting out insurers and giving Americans cash to buy their own healthcare, claiming it would lower costs. Ali Diab, an economist and CEO of Collective Health, said the plan overlooks the real problem: concentrated payer power, opaque pricing and the financial risk people face without insurance. The post Why Trump\u2019s \u2018Cash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}