I’ve asked 50 times: what does Trump want out of this bill? So far, I know that it will be terrific and cover everybody.
How does he propose doing that?
What are the guiding principles here?
Not quite sure what let if fail means.
It has to be funded. No budget or continuing resolution will pass if funding isn’t in that legislation.
The CRs to date all funded it.
I don't think he has any guiding principles on this other than wanting a deal to sign.
Trump must work “Trumpcare” within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) as clarified by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So Trump must not only turn healthcare over to the states, unconstitutional Obamacare actually based on stolen state power and likewise stolen state revenues imo, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, but also consider the following.
Trump needs work with USAG Session to inventory all federal laws and regulations that deal with INTRAstate healthcare, and work with corrupt Congress to get rid of the laws and regulations that Congress cannot justify justify under its limited Commerce Clause powers, unconstitutional laws and regulations that lead to higher medical care prices.
After all that, if Trumpcare still needs new federal powers, then Trump must work with the states to see if they’d be willing to ratify a healthcare amendment to the Constitution, something that the Democratic-controlled Congress that passed unconstitutional Obamacare wrongly ignored doing.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the swamp imo, it is actually up to patriots to drain the swamp in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
I don't know about him, but I'd propose privatizing Medicaid, with mandated premiums based on means testing. Premium subsidy would range from 100 to 0%. Require copays of all recipients.
Allow healthy individual insurance premiums to be below that of unsubsidized Medicaid premium.