Better than anyone · First term · № 36
Knows insurance companies 'better than anybody'
“I know insurance companies better than anybody. They just don't do that. But now there's a spirit like I have not seen.”
- Said
- , White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing
- Subject
- insurance companies
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- First term
What the record showed
The remark answered a question about whether insurers beyond Humana and Cigna would waive co-pays for COVID-19 treatment. Trump said he would 'love to have them do it' and that insurers historically 'just don't do that,' while offering no data on how many insurers had agreed. The claim of unmatched knowledge of the industry was not accompanied by a policy commitment in the briefing.