Posted on 01/15/2017 5:52:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama’s signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump declined to reveal specifics in the telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post, but any proposals from the incoming president would almost certainly dominate the Republican effort to overhaul federal health policy as he prepares to work with his party’s congressional majorities.
Trump’s plan is likely to face questions from the right, following years of GOP opposition to further expansion of government involvement in the health-care system, and from those on the left, who see his ideas as disruptive to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act that have extended coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
In addition to his replacement plan for the ACA, also known as Obamacare, Trump said he will target pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and demand that they negotiate directly with Medicaid and Medicare.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Insurance for some, little American flags for the rest.”
“Yaaay!!!”
LOL! +1
I see those same ads.
Sad, sad...
That’s because the longer explanation doesn’t fit into a tweet. Trump is going to let the market work and the market will demand higher premiums from people with more risk. The only real question is how to provide insurance to people that the market completely rejects, e.g. with a high risk pool.
Big. Government. Liberal.
Will that mean that for the young and healthy who don't even want healthcare, they will be provided(forced) to have health care?
You got all that from the article, huh? Amazing.
“Will that mean that for the young and healthy who don’t even want healthcare, they will be provided(forced) to have health care? “
If the government isn’t involved with it, I don’t care how they do it. As long as I can shop for it in a competitive market they can call it whatever they like.
Hope they don’t have to pass it first to see whats in it.
A Medicare for All? Means tested on copays and deductibles? Kill medicaid and use the existing CMS structure to administer? I am sure FR would melt down, or would it?
As mentioned in related threads, Trump must either work Trumpcare within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers, essentially allowing the states to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate heathcare purposes.
“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.
Or if Trumpcare requires new federal powers, Trump must work with state and federal lawmakers to successfully propose a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
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 find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
As mentioned in related threads, Trump must either work Trumpcare within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers, essentially allowing the states to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate heathcare purposes.
“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.
Or if Trumpcare requires new federal powers, Trump must work with state and federal lawmakers to successfully propose a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
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 find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Notice he did not say free or subsidized insurance for everybody
I’ve got it by listening to just about every speech. Of course there are some contradictions and generalizations in most speeches, but for the most part that is what preceded Obamacare and that is what will replace it along with a couple of mandates that are still somewhat TBD.
Oh boy. Get the drug companies. Concordia makes Donnatal. Old medicine which takes a couple of dollars to produce. Paid 7$ 6 years ago. Now $6,000.00 for same amount. Asked pharmacist why? Because they can.
From the article: "We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump said. "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."
Sounds like free or subsidized to me.
Kind of like mandatory auto liability insurance
Or at least, if you don't buy health insurance, emergency rooms and hospitals have no obligation to run up a huge, government forced and mandated , multi million dollar hospital bill for a health care crisis, nor do they have an obligation to act as primary care physicians for illegal aliens or other people walking in off the street with non emergency health care conditions.
Maybe you should contact President-elect Trump and tell him what he is really thinking?
The Donald has spoken favorably about single payer in the past, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a single payer hybrid program presented.
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If it’s restricted to citizens who are otherwise uninsurable already on Medicaid/care it’s not that big a deal. One of the keys to reducing costs is to get the ambulance chasers under control... I was on a mock jury last year for one ... he wanted to see if his arguments would work.. he was suing a local hospital over a brain injury/defect that in all likelihood was not caused by anything the hospital did (ever try to disprove a lie?) but “may” have been caused by a momentary power failure that was caused by a subcontractor turning off the wrong circuit while making repairs.
Maybe we should see what he does, I’ll probably be pretty close.
Hey. If you take a drug you should know the risks you’re taking.
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