Trump And Republicans Are Cutting Healthcare Costs, Dropping Medicaid Prices By 3.5%

Health insurance remains too expensive, but real change is at hand, and no matter how disappointed some might be with the speed of progress, that is light-years from any reason to hand America over to the Democrats who would destroy her.  

Joseph Ford Cotto | August 20, 2026

A quiet, but powerful achievement is reshaping American healthcare costs right now. Far too many voices stay silent about it.

President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill delivered permanent Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC) that target wasteful financing tricks long used to inflate health insurance prices. These reforms slash the abuse of taxes and payments that had ballooned under Democrat so-called leadership.

A new analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services shows the WFTC will cut non-Medicaid prices by as much as 3.5 percent. That drop reaches commercial insurance, Medicare, and private plans alike.

The numbers are clear and large.

For every $100 billion saved in Medicaid through Republican fixes, another $29 billion flows in savings to Medicare and commercial coverage. Over the decade from 2025 to 2034, non-Medicaid payers stand to gain between $502 billion and $875 billion in benefits. Once fully in place, yearly healthcare spending falls by $100 billion to $175 billion.

Commercial premiums and hospital charges decline as a direct result. Employer-sponsored plans and Obamacare coverage become more affordable than they would have been without the WFTC.

This puts America first in practice.

It ends the open-ended federal checkbook that let states shift costs upward while paying providers far above Medicare rates for able-bodied adults. By 2025, those state-directed payments had surged past $144 billion and were on track to top $300 billion without reform. The average rate hit 186% of Medicare levels.

WFTC reforms lock in limits, phase down excessive taxes, and restore accountability. Taxpayers keep more of their money. Families face lower bills. Seniors and working households both win.

Yet the news media, including conservative outlets, barely notice. At best. Coverage obsesses over polls that paint a dark picture. A Reuters/Ipsos survey, completed in mid-August, found Trump’s overall job........

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