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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That is what I said, Healthcare in this country just costs too much.
“Insurance is expensive because of astronomical medical costs, period.”
You can include the insane malpractice insurance premiums for doctors fueled by the even more insane activist lawyers and judges.
True healhcare reform must include tort reform.
States should have rights, e.g., insurance does not have to cover abortions. If ins. companies want to sell in another state, they can set up an office there. Blue Cross is ubiquitous but can't pay the high costs any more easily than any other company, without astronomical premiums, and they are quite the fiefdom compared to smaller companies, indeed.
Of course it is unconstitutional. The overwhelming bulk of FedGov is unconstitutional. You can buy almost anything with enough of "other peoples' money". Even some supposed 'conservatives' will happily sell their principles and their honor for some of "other peoples' money".
w\Why not put a nickel tax on all crap food, soda, smokes, weed, burger joints, booze since that is what the poor seem to like to injest, and put the money towards health care for the poor.
I’m a Trump supporter.
This is a good explanation of what we have to work with.
True, it’s better than being “with Her”.
Once in a while, Trumps liberal or libertarian side will be clearly seen and heard.
Trump is a Truman democrat, something I've been saying since 2015. That's why he won: Americans want a government that works, in both senses of the term--a government that puts forth effort like a private business, and a government that succeeds in the objectives of the taxpayers--and Trump promises, both implicitly by being a businessman, and explicitly, to make the government work again.
Anyone who wanted Burke, or Madison, or Locke, should have voted for Cruz--though as a former Cruzer, I freely admit now that if he had won the nomination, Hillary Clinton would be preparing for her inauguration this Friday.
The majority of the country (outside of CA and NY) wants as President someone who says what he thinks, isn't bullied by the political establishment, knows how to run a business, has an inherent hatred for our enemies, and who won't shut down the government but will make it work for the people--they want Harry Truman, even if they've never heard of Harry Truman. And since the left has gone so far left they've landed on the left side of Guam and are about to topple the island over, Trump, the Truman of our time, is a long sight better than anyone else available--or as Buckley put it, he was the most conservative person who could be elected.
Because extreme left wing Democrats have been controlling the News and Entertainment for decades, and as a result they have manipulated the public into believing a lot of foolish things.
Again, the source of most of our troubles are the people who manipulate the information which the public needs to make sensible decisions.
I will wait and see what this plan is before I get too upset. I am assuming it is a plan that was written by Congressional republicans so hopefully it is not too socialist.
The same people who paid for it before Obamacare. Us, but it’s preferable to having government dabbling in healthcare.
Besides, if we close the borders that will cut those costs by 75%
I get the impression from your post that you have an idea. If you’d like to describe it plainly and in some detail, I’d be interested in hearing what it is.
“Insurance for everybody” ceases to be insurance, it’s simply wealth redistribution.
Insurance is a classic example of risk management. If they are prevented from managing risk by rejecting, or limiting certain types of would-be policy holders or health conditions, there is no way to manage the risk, other than to raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles to outrageously high levels.
The "free market" and health "insurance" come from mutually contradictory philosophical backgrounds. Health Insurance originally evolved because of Government manipulation of market forces, and "health insurance" is one of the primary causes of why medical care costs are so excessive
It has effectively removed the supply and demand paradigm from the process. When people aren't paying their own bills, they have no interest in controlling costs. When they are paying their bills, they object to excessive or extravagant costs, and it is this pressure that keeps prices down in other industries.
In the medical fields, the only ones in which costs are decreasing are those for elective procedures, such as eye surgery or cosmetic procedures.
In all other areas (where insurance dominates) prices are out of control and excessive.
Fine with me. But states where tort reform has been tried have not found enormous savings, as I understand it. A small town near me, population 1100, just completed a hospital addition to the tune of 400 million dollars. It looks like Trump Tower....
Not forcing people to pay for things they neither need or want, like abortion, maternity, pediatrics, drug rehab, etc. Will make it much more affordable. Allowing young healthy people to buy catastrophic insurance would be an incentive also rather than a mandate. High risk people could be put into another pool and if their coverage needed assistance it would be a lot less expensive for everyone to just do that than the way the ACA socialized plan is.
You have that backwards. Medical costs are astronomically expensive because of insurance. (Also government and University created restrictions on the supply of Doctors)
First myth, 30 million people didn’t have health insurance. Everyone has health insurance. You walk into the ER, say you don’t have insurance and you are still treated. Whether it is one or 30 million.
What Obamacare was meant to do was to give those who had to go to the ER for their treatment a better feeling about themselves due to the stigma of having to go to the ER instead of a private doctor. Yes, the entire medical systems was about to come crashing down because an illegal alien has self esteem issues.
The entire system will be nationalized within a few years.
It’s really the only way out of the mess that’s been created, by both parties, since 1965.
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