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Trump Calls Obamacare Insurers Fat and Rich. Investors See Them as Vulnerable.

2025-11-23 10:30
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Trump Calls Obamacare Insurers Fat and Rich. Investors See Them as Vulnerable.

By David WainerShareResizeListen(2 min)WSJ’s Sabrina Siddiqui breaks down the effect of expiring enhanced ACA subsidies that was at the center of the partisan fight in the government shutdown. Photo I...

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WSJ’s Sabrina Siddiqui breaks down the effect of expiring enhanced ACA subsidies that was at the center of the partisan fight in the government shutdown. Photo Illustration: Laura Fong/WSJ

Healthcare politics and investing might as well be living in alternate universes.

President Trump and some Republicans have been describing Obamacare as a gravy train for insurers. Trump’s latest broadside slammed “big, fat, rich insurance companies who have made trillions,” and he urged Congress to send healthcare subsidies directly to patients instead.

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