Former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announced in a new social media video that she does not have health insurance in the United States, and traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for stem cell therapy she says is unavailable domestically. The 35-minute video, posted June 17 on X and YouTube as the first episode of a series called "Life With MTG," puts a personal face on a policy problem Greene has hammered for months: the cost and accessibility of American healthcare.
"I am 52 and I do NOT have health insurance," Greene declared in the video, USA Today reported. She described the treatment as involving "stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborn babes", a therapy she says the FDA has not approved in the United States.
The disclosure comes months after Greene resigned from Congress in January, a departure that stripped her of eligibility for the federal health benefits available to sitting and retired members. It also follows a stretch of public feuding with President Trump and Republican leadership that reshaped her political standing entirely.
Greene's situation is not as unusual as it might sound. Members of Congress purchase health coverage through the DC SHOP, the District of Columbia's small business health options program exchange, the same system available to all federal employees and their families since 2014. They pay for it out of their own salaries. There are no free or discounted rates for sitting members. Retired members may keep their insurance but must continue paying. Members who resign, however, lose eligibility.
Greene resigned halfway through her third term. That decision, announced in November 2025, came after a very public falling-out with Trump. Breitbart reported at the time that Greene issued a sweeping condemnation of both parties and what she called the "Political Industrial Complex," saying her legislation never reached the House floor for a vote.
"Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both political parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more."
Trump had publicly withdrawn his endorsement and called Greene "wacky" after she distanced herself from his Israel stance and pushed for the release of Epstein documents.
The rift deepened when Greene criticized Trump for spending too much time on foreign affairs instead of addressing inflation and the cost of living. Newsmax reported that Trump responded by saying Greene had "lost her way" and accused her of "catering to the other side."
Her pattern of breaking with the president over foreign policy and other issues accelerated her exit from Congress and from the Republican mainstream.
In the new video, Greene framed her Mexico trip as a symptom of a broader American healthcare failure. She traveled to Puerto Vallarta with her fiancé, Brian Glenn, who recently left the White House press corps and moved to Georgia ahead of their wedding.
Greene stated in the video:
"Healthcare costs are out of control, and more Americans are leaving the U.S. for medical tourism treatments they can't access in the United States or can't afford at home. That's why I traveled to Mexico for Stem cell therapy."
She blamed the Affordable Care Act for what she called the nation's "healthcare crisis" and claimed that 27 percent of Americans under 65 lack health insurance. She also cited a figure of $2,300 per month for a family of four's health insurance premiums. She did not provide sources for either number.
USA Today's reporter noted that KFF data puts the uninsured figure closer to 10 percent, a gap largely driven by decreases in Medicaid funding. That is a significant discrepancy, nearly three times Greene's claimed rate, and it matters because the policy argument she builds rests on the scale of the problem she describes.
That said, Greene's core complaint about healthcare affordability is not unfounded, even if her specific numbers are unsourced. She made the same argument earlier when she was still in Congress, publicly calling health insurance a "giant scam that has become completely unaffordable," as Fox News reported. She also broke with Republican leadership by supporting the extension of Obamacare tax credits in a government spending bill, a move she justified by pointing out that her own adult children's insurance premiums were set to double in 2026 if those credits expired.
"I'm going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year, my own adult children's insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district," Greene said at the time, as the Washington Examiner reported.
Greene's claim that she cannot afford, or has chosen not to purchase, health insurance drew immediate skepticism online, given her financial profile. A 2025 GoBankingRates report estimated her net worth could be as high as $25 million. She sold her Rome, Georgia, home, a 5,000-square-foot house on a 10.64-acre lot she previously shared with ex-husband Perry Greene, for $1.1 million.
She has also pushed back on critics questioning her travel and lifestyle choices since leaving Congress.
Greene fired back at commenters who pointed to the $25 million figure. On X, she wrote that she signed a fiduciary contract with a portfolio manager who handles her investments, that she often learns about his financial decisions "AFTER they have been made and often times on the news," and that she was "always one of the first members of Congress to report my trades."
"But if anyone can find that bank account that has $25 million that I supposedly have and you can tell me the account number and the pin I would greatly appreciate it."
She also pushed back on the suggestion that she got rich in Congress, stating she "was a multi-millionaire BEFORE I ran for Congress in 2020 and self-funded my campaign over $1 million dollars. Construction."
Whether Greene's net worth is $25 million or something less, the optics of a self-described multi-millionaire claiming she has no health insurance, while traveling internationally for elective medical treatment, invite fair questions. Is this a genuine affordability complaint, or a political argument dressed in personal branding?
Greene's video opens with a compilation of past interview appearances, public speaking engagements, congressional comments, and words of support from individuals including the late Charlie Kirk. It is clearly designed as a relaunch, a new media identity for a politician without a seat. Inside Edition had already featured her Mexico stem cell trip the week before the video dropped.
Her constituents in northwestern Georgia offered mixed verdicts on her congressional tenure. AP News reported that while some saw her as a fighter and their voice, others questioned what she actually delivered. "I don't know of anything that she did do here except, certainly, got her voice heard. But where did we, how did we benefit from that?" said Heath Patterson, an independent constituent.
That question hangs over Greene's new chapter. She is no longer a legislator who can introduce bills or cast votes. She is a media personality making a populist case about healthcare costs, a case that resonates with millions of Americans who genuinely struggle to afford coverage, while simultaneously declining to provide sourcing for her headline numbers and living a lifestyle that suggests cost is not her primary barrier.
The healthcare system does have real problems. Premiums are high. The FDA approval process locks Americans out of treatments available in other countries. Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon, and not just among the wealthy. These are legitimate issues that deserve serious conservative attention and policy solutions.
But serious policy arguments require accurate data, not inflated statistics. And credibility requires consistency, not blaming the Affordable Care Act while also supporting its subsidies, and not claiming you cannot access healthcare while flying to a Mexican resort town for elective treatment.
If Greene wants to lead a populist healthcare conversation from outside Congress, she will need more than a YouTube series and a stem cell receipt. She will need the kind of rigor she spent five years in Washington demanding from everyone else.
