“The View” co-host Joy Behar on Tuesday said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to have the government and insurance companies pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) is “Marxist.”
President Trump told NBC News on Thursday that his administration will require insurance companies to cover the costs of IVF treatment. suggestion It has drawn mixed reactions from Republicans, with Behar calling Trump's support for requiring the government to pay for insurers to cover the costs of IVF treatment a socialist policy proposal.
“What I like best is his position on IVF, because he said insurance companies should pay for IVF. They were against it and then all of a sudden they're for it,” Behar said. “Even though J.D. Vance is against it. So Trump says, you know how much IVF costs? A typical IVF session costs $40,000. So if the insurance companies pay for it, the government will pay for it? Is that their take? By their definition, that's called socialism. So Donald Trump is a Marxist!”
The View's Joy Behar says Trump's proposal to make insurance companies pay for IVF is “Marxist.” pic.twitter.com/TZOOZSCD2a
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Co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin noted that Republicans have previously opposed government mandates on insurance companies and criticized Trump for not disclosing how the mandate to insurance companies would be paid for. (RELATED: “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin says abortion is “wrong,” calls for “consequences” for embryo destruction)
“That just blew me away. If he had said in the Republican primary, 'Six weeks is too short. We need longer access to abortion,' he wouldn't have won the Republican primary because that's not the party's position. But he's said the government will pay for IVF. I served in Congress during Obamacare and I'm old enough to remember Republicans being against government mandates for insurance,” Griffin said.
Griffin also said all but two Republicans in the Senate — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — are on the ballot. Voted Opposed a bill aimed at establishing IVF as a national right. Republicans have introduced their own bill aimed at blocking states from explicitly banning IVF.
Co-host Sara Haines argued that President Trump's opposition to Florida's six-week abortion ban is “more in line” with the majority of the U.S. The former president said in an NBC News interview on Thursday that he believes the six-week abortion ban, which Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in April 2023, is too restrictive.
Another host, Sunny Hostin, argued that general election voters will remember that President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and returned control of abortion law to the states in the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. She said President Trump is “underestimating” the impact abortion has on female voters.
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