Posted on 04/12/2016 6:55:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” As Obamacare has demonstrated all too clearly, any such declaration from a federal official is indeed cause for alarm. Nearly as scary for conservatives is the word, bipartisan, when uttered by a Republican candidate for office or one of his close advisers. This is why conservatives of all stripes should be unnerved that Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser to Donald Trump, told the New York Times last Friday that any replacement for Obamacare “must be bipartisan.”
“Bipartisan,” when used by a GOP candidate, is usually a signal to the Democrats that many of his ostensible principles are negotiable. It is particularly worrisome when deployed by an adviser to Trump, who has been on all sides of the health care debate, depending on the political exigencies of the moment. “The Donald” has, of course, often lavished praise on the government-run health care systems of countries like Canada and Scotland yet now pledges to replace Obamacare with a bilious admixture of its worst elements and even dumber proposals long advocated by the Democrats.
In other words, because it contains a wide variety of bad Democrat ideas, Trump’s plan is already “bipartisan.” Thus, when we find one of his closest advisers throwing this term around during an interview with the Times, one can’t help but wonder what else the Donald will give away in the unlikely event that he wins the presidency. Compounding the queasy feeling induced by that question is the reality that Clovis himself apparently has rather flexible principles. Before he joined the Trump campaign last summer, he was one of the real estate magnate’s most frequent and vociferous critics.
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Ten whole months? That's like .128% of his life. That means in 4 years he will only change his position 4.8 times. Sign me up for that kind of consistency.
Aww, you guys really try hard. I do appreciate how hard you work.
Those comments just fall flat though.
People are not getting their money’s worth.
If you ask the average Canadian they will tell you that they are very satisfied with the Canadian system.
We don't want to embarrass you so we try and keep the quality of our comments to your level. Although we refuse to get a lobotomy to try and keep down.
Well thank you, but for future reference, if you can understand something, it’s probably something most folks know better than before you send it.
I did know that. What I was saying is that Company Z owns subsidiary X in State A and subsidiary Y in State B and so on and so on... Sorry if you didn’t know that.
Its why insurance companies are willing to buy national ads on prime time TV.
A better-than-average Canadian - a wonderful man - told me he did not like the Canadian healthcare. He happened to be my sister’s father-in-law.
We were at a party a couple of years ago with a Canadian couple and they said it was a pretty good system overall but you just had to remember if you needed immediate attention to go to the ER because they could not put off treating you.
“..if you needed immediate attention to go to the ER because they could not put off treating you. ..”
Same w/the USA. However, my friend, who’s in the healthcare business, said that if you need a new hip replacement in Canada, they put you in a wheel chair instead. Maybe they just do that at an older age, but we give hip replacements to older folks, and that’s the age they usually need it.
Of course, their insurance helps some people, but it’s NOT as good as the USA. Now with Obamacare, we could face Canadian lack of quality, I fear.
Well I’m not advocating for the Canadian system. I think Trump has also realized its not for the US.
I’m glad you’re not advocating for the Canadian system.
However, Trump said: “it WORKS in Canada. “ It sounded as if he thought it was as good as ours.
Right?! It’s been proven over and over that Cruz lied about this and yet like the little rapid ankle biters they are, they’ll chew this one down to a nub.
C. Steven Tucker - barrycare expert, former Cruz supporter who now supports Trump specifically due to Cruz’s lies on this subject.
I wouldn’t trust ted to tell me the time of day.
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