The Truman Project.
The Truman Project is named in honor of President Harry Truman, the first American president to champion universal access to healthcare as a national goal. Like Truman, we believe that every American should have access to quality medical care, but unlike the single-payer model he proposed, our plan seeks to achieve that goal through market reform, competition, and innovation, not government control. The Truman Project rejects “Medicare for All” and other government-run systems in favor of a transparent, technology-driven marketplace where all healthcare services are priced openly and competitively. By allowing public funds to automatically cover the least-cost, medically appropriate option, and giving individuals the freedom to pay more for other choices, the project seeks to make healthcare affordable, efficient, and accessible to every American without dismantling the private sector or limiting choice.
Why The Truman Project needs financing?
Entrenched special interests profit from the current healthcare system and fight fiercely against meaningful reform. The Truman Project is different, we’re advancing market-based healthcare that is affordable, efficient, and accessible to every American.
Your support helps us:
Engage top policy experts to refine our plan.
Communicate the vision through professional marketing and outreach.
Build bipartisan legislative support with experienced lobbying.
Staff the project with dedicated personnel.
Develop a working model of the national healthcare marketplace to prove out the concept.
Together, we can challenge the status quo, overcome entrenched opposition, and demonstrate a practical path to healthcare reform that truly works for the American people. Donate today to build a healthier future for America.
Market Reform with a Public Option, Not Government Control.
The Truman Project represents a new vision for healthcare, one that blends Republican principles of free markets and competition with the moral imperative of ensuring that every American can access care. While Democrats advocate for a single-payer system, and Republicans emphasize quality and choice, this plan bridges the two by introducing market discipline into healthcare’s most dysfunctional area - pricing.
At its core, the Truman Project creates a unified national healthcare marketplace, where all medical services are listed with transparent pricing. When care is needed, public funds will automatically pay for the least-cost qualified provider, factoring in the total cost, including transportation. Any costs above that baseline can be paid out of pocket or through private insurance, ensuring that patients maintain freedom of choice while incentivizing providers to compete on both price and quality.
This approach is grounded in a fundamental economic truth, competition drives innovation, improves quality, and lowers prices. We’ve seen this dynamic in countless industries from consumer electronics to automobiles, yet healthcare has remained immune to these pressures due to heavy government regulation, opaque pricing systems, and monopolistic insurance structures. Programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA, though well-intentioned, have entrenched inefficiencies by disconnecting consumers from costs and shielding providers from competition.
The reality is that the United States already operates under a de facto government-managed healthcare system; roughly half of all Americans receive care financed directly or indirectly through federal programs. It is a myth that we have a purely private insurance model today. The Truman Project recognizes that the status quo of spiraling costs, opaque pricing, and government inefficiency is unsustainable both for families and for the nation’s fiscal health. Healthcare spending is the primary driver of long-term federal debt, and reforming it is inseparable from restoring America’s economic foundation.
The project also proposes a nationalized health records system to modernize patient data while protecting privacy and freedom of choice. The federal government would standardize and secure the underlying data infrastructure, but private companies would design the user interfaces and compete to deliver the best tools for patients and doctors alike. Patients could opt out or retain full control of their records, ensuring that privacy remains paramount while enabling physicians to make more holistic and informed decisions.
Ultimately, the Truman Project is not about government control, it’s about restoring competition, transparency, and efficiency to an industry that has drifted far from its market roots. By aligning incentives and empowering consumers, it seeks to make healthcare affordable, sustainable, and accessible for all, a truly American solution to one of our nation’s greatest challenges.