Karoline Leavitt urges Congress to pass Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan

President Donald Trump unveiled his new “Great Health Care Plan” on Thursday, urging congress to create and pass legislation with the provisions included in an effort to lower health care costs for Americans.

The plan, which comes amid a major push from the White House to focus on affordability issues for Americans, calls on Congress to support a series of provisions outlined in the plan that largely stem from previous executive orders the president signed during this period.

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Specifically, the “Grand Healthcare Plan” calls on Congress to codify Trump’s “Favoured Nations Drug Pricing” initiative that directs drug companies to lower costs and keep them in line with the cost of drugs in other developed countries, according to a White House fact sheet. Trump issued an executive order on the matter in May.

The plan also aims to maximize price transparency, requiring providers or insurers taking on Medicare or Medicaid to “post their rates and charges prominently in their workplace and ensure that insurers comply with price transparency requirements,” according to the fact sheet.

A protester holding a sign to protect Medicaid lights up the Capitol amid the budget standoff, on May 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Lee Vogel/Getty Images for Intergenerational Care)

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The plan also calls for ending taxpayer-funded subsidy payments to insurance companies, instead sending that money to eligible Americans instead — a proposal previously proposed by Trump.

“The government will pay you the money directly. It goes to you, then they take the money and buy your health care,” Trump said in a video released by the White House on Thursday. “Nobody has ever heard of that before, and that’s the way it is.”

It is unclear how the federal government plans to distribute the money directly to Americans, and an administration official told reporters Thursday that the administration is open to working with Congress on that front.

Sunrise light hits the dome of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, January 2, 2025, as the 119th Congress is scheduled to begin its work on Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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“These are common-sense measures that make up President Trump’s great health care plan, and they represent the most comprehensive and bold agenda to reduce health care costs that the federal government has ever considered,” White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt told reporters Thursday. “Congress should immediately adopt President Trump’s plan and pass it into law.”

Meanwhile, the Senate is preparing to vote on extending Affordable Care Act benefits, which were a sticking point during the government shutdown in October and expire at the end of 2025. The House approved a three-year extension of the benefits on January 8.