Posted on 01/16/2017 6:29:08 AM PST by mikelets456
Speaking with the Washington Post over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump promised that every American will have health insurance under his Obamacare replacement plan, which is set to be introduced in the openings months of his presidency.
Though he didn’t provide the Post with many details about his plan, Trump said the plan will provide “less expensive and much better” coverage to Americans that Obamacare has “in a much simplified form.”
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the Post. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
“It’s not going to be their plan,” he added of people currently covered under Obamacare. “It’ll be another plan. But they’ll be beautifully covered. I don’t want single-payer. What I do want is to be able to take care of people.”
Trump explained that in addition to providing coverage to every American that needs health insurance, another major part of his plan will be to target pharmaceutical companies, especially those with high drug prices.
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“I’m not liking the sounds of this
Based on what?
Because he didn’t say something like “I’m gonna screw some people because it gives me free market tingles”?
I’m going to see what a businessman comes up with, not what Glenn Beck’s blog tells you what to think.
Fact is, which not one person except for Thomas Sowell has the balls to say, health care is NOT a right. Nor is health insurance.
If we want “affordable” health care, we should eliminate ALL 3rd party payers. The change would be traumatic on the provider in for a while, serious shaking out. But costs would drop like a stone.
“Everyone having access to affordable insurance is a good thing. As long as it doesn’t break the bank.”
And the ONLY means to ensure cost control is privatization. I am all for everyone having healthcare, but not if the government runs it.
HINT: There already is “insurance for everyone”
You just go to any emergency room and they are required to treat you.
This existed before Obamacare.
The trick is to get government OUT OF health care.
State lines = fiefdoms and potential monopolies.
Car insurance doesn’t have that problem.
I don't mind if other people have insurance as long as it doesn't affect me negatively. BTW, I have been buying insurance before and after O-care which makes me an “expert.”
Why do all of Socialism's solutions result in someone else having give up something so that other can have theirs too? Why should quality suffer and value nose dive and costs increase so that the uninsured are covered?
Well then you should be happy as Trump has repeatedly said health care will remain private.
I hope “provides for” is not the same as mandatory.
Everyone should have the option for insurance, if they so choose.
‘insurance for everybody!’
‘It’s on me!’
(he is, after all, a multi-millionaire)
If everybody gets insurance, even if they can’t pay for it, everybody that can pay will pay for someone else and themselves. It is inescapable that it will cost close to what it costs now if everyone gets the same benefits.
The problem is not insurance it is the cost of healthcare and people who are supported to an equal standard by others like me.
Healthcare in this country just costs too much.
“Well then you should be happy as Trump has repeatedly said health care will remain private.”
Yes, I am happy as I have faith he will do just that.
So you won't be surprised if that's the plan?
(And then step back and see what they find to bitch about?)
The problem with healthcare is government. It causes insurance companies to carry a huge financial burden. This causes healthcare providers a burden, which then causes us a burden.
Healthcare costs have spiraled out of control. If we bring costs back inline then the costs for everyone decreases. If there are people having major costs for care, that, too, is reduced.
Doctors have shown a concern to get back to private healthcare by going “concierge”, 100% private pay.
Health insurance is not health care. All those liberal maniacs yelling for 0bamacare still don’t realize that. In one local case this guy lost his local provider and the nearest one that accepted ACA was in Idaho. He lives in WA.
“I don’t mind if other people have insurance as long as it doesn’t affect me negatively”
The concept of insurance is the bet that the many will not need access to the pot so that the unlucky few will have a smooth ride when they need it.
The problem is that those that use it the most tend to be insanely reckless with their health, and thus drain the pot causing premiums to go up for everyone to refill it.
The only ways everyone can get insurance without having people wait until they are sick and then slipping in because there are no exclusions for pre-conditions are:
1. Everybody participates in the insured pool sick or not with risk profile based premiums.
2. If you want to take the risk of not participating in the lifetime risk pool you are thrown into the high risk pre-conditions pool and it will cost MUCH more than having been in the lifetime risk pool.
3. For the indigent that can’t pay we all pay or they do without.
Very well said, TC.
But America is doomed ... even supposed 'conservatives' on a supposedly 'conservative' forum have already surrendered their principles and come to love Big Brother.
I think you have it right. Just as we have “automobiles for everyone”, which doesn’t mean they are free or that everyone has to buy one.
Federal involvement in healthcare is extra constitutional.
IIRC, the Feds get a piece of every policy ever written. Not sure how it works.
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