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Exclusive: Echelon Insights Poll Reveals GOP Midterm Boost from Trump’s Healthcare Price Transparency
Hannah Knudsen
24 Oct 2025
President Donald Trump’s price transparency agenda with healthcare could massively impact the midterm elections — positively for the GOP — an Echelon Insights survey first reviewed exclusively by Breitbart News revealed.
Trump began to lay the groundwork for price transparency early in his second administration, first signing an executive order requiring hospitals and health insurers to deliver “meaningful price information to the American people”:
The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take all necessary and appropriate action to rapidly implement and enforce the healthcare price transparency regulations issued pursuant to Executive Order 13877.
To this end, the survey asked respondents, “If Donald Trump required actual prices be given to patients before care starting next year in 2026, would you support or oppose Donald Trump’s agenda on healthcare?”
The question is particularly significant, as Democrats maintain they are keeping the government shut down — for 24 days now — largely over healthcare. However, they have hidden the fact that their demands include healthcare for illegal aliens.
In the terms presented by the question, support for Trump’s healthcare agenda leaps with 62 percent of voters supporting it compared to 22 percent who do not. Trump’s price transparency policy also wins over independents by a 34 percent margin, with 57 percent supporting and 23 opposing. Remarkably, even Democrats are tied in supporting and opposing at 39 percent each.
Further, 66 percent said the government should require insurers to provide prices before patients receive care and said this should begin “as soon as possible.”
“American voters want to receive real prices, not estimates, for health care services before they receive care, and they are willing to reward leaders who make this a reality sooner rather than later,” Echelon Insights’ Kristen Soltis Anderson said in a statement.
They survey also found that most voters, 65 percent, believe Trump’s pushing of insurers shows he will stand up to lobbyists, and Trump sees high confidence among his supporters as 88 percent of Trump 2024 voters think he can deliver results faster than other politicians.
However, this divides on party lines, as the survey shows Democrats are generally more trusted on healthcare than Republicans by a nine point margin — 50 percent to 41 percent — with a 24-point gap among independents, specifically. Meanwhile, Trump’s agenda as it stands is underwater with 42 percent supporting it and 49 percent opposing it, but that drastically shifts when the framing is changed as delivering price transparency starting in 2026, as previously highlighted.
Evidence suggests that all of this could factor into the midterm elections as half of voters say they would be more likely to support a midterm candidate who helped Trump deliver healthcare price transparency. A majority of voters, 70 percent, also said they would be pleasantly surprised if Trump pushed back against hospital and insurance lobbyists.
GOP strategist David Kochel said in a statement that Democrats are indeed trying to make the upcoming election about healthcare, but Republicans “have a healthcare issue that is about affordability and transparency.”
“The massive support among voters for healthcare price transparency transcends party affiliation and President Trump has uniquely positioned Republicans to win independents with this issue. Actual, upfront prices in healthcare could be the ‘Trump card’ at the ballot box,” he said. “But it needs to get done before the midterms so voters can see this issue starting to work.”
Trent England, Executive Director of Save our States, also pointed to the importance of healthcare price transparency for the GOP:
Across the country, I hear from voters who work hard but struggle to get anywhere thanks to rising costs—especially costs for healthcare. There is an obvious first step to change this: Healthcare price transparency. That means telling people the real prices, up front, before treatments. Donald Trump has put this on the agenda, and fast action now is essential for small businesses and other American workers. Nobody fills a grocery cart without seeing the price tags. Why do we put up with a healthcare marketplace where prices are hidden until everything is done and we get the bill? Americans have a right to real prices, up front, in healthcare just like in everything else.”
This survey comes as Democrats continue to shutter the government under the guise of fighting for healthcare reform, despite the fact that — as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has mentioned — these are two separate issues. Further, Johnson said this is a crisis Democrats themselves created from the beginning.
“In their desperation now, they’re trying their very best to somehow blame Republicans for the forthcoming healthcare crisis that they themselves created by way of — just very quick review for the record, because they’re trying to obscure this as well,” Johnson said during a press conference this week, walking through the facts:
Let’s remember the true origins of the boondoggle that is American health care. Under Obamacare, Democrats wrote that bill. They passed it into law without a single Republican vote. During the COVID pandemic, Democrats created temporary Obamacare credits, again without a single Republican vote. Democrats then voted to extend those credits. They set the expiration date on and then when they held the majority in the Senate, it was Democrats who chose not to extend those credits beyond this year. Now, as we approach their own self imposed expiration date, now they are breathlessly insisting to you and on all the interviews that somehow it’s a Republican crisis.
“Give me a break,” Johnson added. “The facts are the facts. We are up here saying, sharing the simple fact and truth. As John Adams said, facts are stubborn things.”
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From Breitbart
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-transparency/
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