{"id":243238,"date":"2025-10-22T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243238\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:03:22","slug":"byron-donalds-doubts-people-need-full-blown-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243238\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds doubts people need ‘full-blown’ health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

While members of Congress have comprehensive, government-subsidized insurance, yet another Florida Republican<\/a> isn\u2019t sure most people need such all-encompassing plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing we need is we need a system where there are catastrophic health care plans \u2026 You can have a health care policy around catastrophic care, but that doesn\u2019t really mean you need a full-blown gold-plated health care policy,\u201d said Rep. Byron Donalds<\/a>\u00a0on Daybreak\u00a0on 92.5 FM WFSX Fox News Radio \u2014 Estero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donalds said he wanted to get rid of the Affordable Care Act in light of \u201ccommunity ratings\u201d that force everyone to subsidize the \u201cabout five to 8% of the population that have what we call a major acute medical issue\u201d and drive up costs.<\/p>\n

Unburdened by the larger risk pool, Donalds sees savings and flexibility as the watchwords.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be forced by government regulation to buy these gold-plated health care policies. You could actually design a health care policy that fits your needs, which is really where we should have been in health care all along,\u201d said Donalds, part of the Republican House majority that voted to end subsidies for Marketplace plans.<\/p>\n

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Donalds, a Naples Republican running for Florida Governor, is the second major Florida elected official to say citizens didn\u2019t need comprehensive coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that\u2019s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they\u2019re doing out of a health savings account,\u201d Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0said during a fireside chat at the Hoover Institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many Floridians may get to test these theories about whether insurance is necessary.<\/p>\n

Alexis Bakofsky<\/a>, the Deputy Commissioner of Life and Health Insurance for Florida\u2019s Office of Insurance Regulation, said enrollment could be lowered by \u201c25-30%\u201d if subsidies are terminated.<\/p>\n

Currently, 4.7 million Floridians have Affordable Care Act individual insurance, meaning 1.4 million people who have insurance this year could be uninsured in 2026.<\/p>\n

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