Posted on 02/05/2017 7:13:44 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
President Trump said Sunday that it could take “sometime into next year” until his ObamaCare replacement plan is ready, a slower timetable than he and other Republicans have put forward in the past.
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked Trump in an interview before the Super Bowl if Americans can “expect a new healthcare plan rolled out by the Trump Administration this year.”
“Yes, in the process and maybe it’ll take till sometime into next year but we’re certainly going to be in the process,” Trump replied. “You have to remember Obamacare doesn’t work so we are putting in a wonderful plan,” he added.
“It statutorily takes a while to get. We’re going to be putting it in fairly soon, I think that yes I would like to say by the end of the year at least the rudiments but we should have something within the year and the following year.”
In contrast, last month, Trump said he would be putting forward a plan shortly after his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), is approved by the Senate, a far faster timetable.
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Cover everyone? How about telling people that, if they don’t have health insurance, it’s a problem, but it’s your problem? Why make me pay? Get a good job and you will have health insurance. If you are not valuable enough in the marketplace to earn good wages and benefits, then it’s up to you to increase your value. I’m sick and tired of footing the bill for lazy slackers.
If you’ve been paying attention none of this is Trump’s fault. His Hhs Secretary still hasn’t gotten a vote...you need a Trump like figure running the Senate and that is not what we have. This lies squarely at the feet of the squishes in the Republican party
What part are you saying is supported by Democrats?
There is a group of Republicans who are every bit as invested as Democrats in the old school. They are every bit as big a problem.
You will notice I have strongly supported Palin, and Trump. Both times I very strongly came out for each’s candidacy. Both of them.
Both of them, were against some aspects of the GOP. Trump is saying we need to buy American, and return American industry right here (so to speak, because I am in Ho Chi Minh City at the moment) but America has for the entire generation been sold out to globalists.
They are every bit as big a problem, as democrats.
And the people saying “healthcare needs to go back to what we had before” are in my opinion, likewise not for the solution.
Stop distracting people with silly accusations.
Our healthcare system is way, way overpriced. That is a big problem, and needs to be fixed.
Fixed.
Healthcare is too darned expensive. And not everyone is covered.
That is completely unacceptable.
Leaving 15% uncovered is not insane. Why do you assume people have a right to health insurance? I’m sure there is a sizable percentage of households that lack 50” TVs. I don’t feel a need to use tax money to provide them. Same thing with health insurance. If it’s a priority for you, then find a way to get it. Don’t use the government to make me pay for you.
I’m with you except we need to in that case, get government out of healthcare.
Completely. Right now there are thousands of laws, governing every single thing about American healthcare.
We need to get government OUT of healthcare. Completely.
I don’t think however, that is what you are saying. You want to keep the government involved in limiting competition in thousands of ways in everything, keep healthcare extremely expensive.
But then “get government out” of covering people who are on the short end of the deal?
No way. I’m all for getting government COMPLETELY out of healthcare.
Completely.
I however do not believe you are.
No no no no NO NO!!!
I have to get back to normal-ish insurarance. I can’t afford to see my doctors... I have a $10,000 deductible and that’s catastrophic coverage with normal to high premiums. 0bamacare compliant insurance sux and I’ve been pissed since it was forced on me and I’m getting pissed that the Repubs are going to make me keep it.
My head’s gonna explode.
2018 was slated to be Single Payer time under Hillary Clinton as ObamaCare implodes.
All of the tricks and accounting smoke and mirrors Obama used to hide the massive deficits of ObamaCare are going away and next fall the costs of ObamaCare are go climb through the roof as ObamaCare collapses under it's own weight.
The longer ObamaCare is left in place, the more expensive, unaffordable and unpopular it will become and the crappier the coverage will become.
It would really be nice if the American people were aware and responsible enough to grasp this because the sooner ObamaCare is repealed , the less permanent damage and destruction will be done to our health care system in the process.
Unfortunately, this is not to be.
Americans are going to have to experience serious pain and grief and our healthcare system must be beat down before before it becomes impossible for Democrats to demagogue and play the blame game and ObamaCare becomes politically feasible to repeal.
Many Republicans are a part of the problem. The do not oppose the Democrat agenda. They only claim to implement it better.
Wait, my insurance went from ok to unacceptable.
It’s horrible now, horrible.
I want to go back to what was taken from me before this shit was forced down my family’s throat.
0bamacare takes from me and gives it to the others who you want to cover. Cover them all you want but leave me the hell out of it. If I want to help pay I will but I damn sure do not appreciate being forced to pay.
So I would absolutely support going back to what we had.
so you can go to the emergency room for your chemo treatments????? doesn’t happen...
Then offer big companies a tax credit for helping people with their medical bills. Let people buy a minimum policy that only covers major bills. Institute tort reform. Let doctors and other providers get tax credits for helping the poor. Let pharmacists and nurses open clinics.
The only solution is to free health insurance and health care from government regulations. That would reduce costs dramatically and improve care.
Fine. Repeal the damn thing now and work on passing whatever “replacement” next year.
I just hope Trump will get rid of the mandate/tax for not having coverage and I was hoping he;d do this before April 15th. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay the govt. more money for not having any coverage I do not need.
I agree with you. That would be best. Get government out. Get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, the FDA, all of it. Practicing medicine should not require a license because the marketplace would weed out any bad practitioners pretty quickly.
Ideally, getting government out of health care would go hand in hand with getting government out of education and science. Medical schools should get no taxpayer subsidies at all because no education should get that. Medical research should get no taxpayer subsidies because no non-military research should get that.
Get the Gov’t OUT of the insurance business. Those who aren’t covered don’t pay anyway ....
I actually think the GOP wants it to last longer to show how bad it is.
Let the Obummer voters go without insurance, since, they all thought they were going to get free health care at the expense of tax payers. Medicaid needs to be cut back. Medicare cuts restored. (I am on Medicare.) Welfare eligibility needs to be tightened. (I think welfare is a Bolshekrat money laundering scheme to get the gangs to get Bolshie voters to the polls.)
whatever government takes over/subsidizes becomes monstrously expensive, and then crappy.
take student loans.
take retirement.
take health care.
charity (housing, food).
education.
we all want good health care. However it is more and more expensive, and crappy since they took over.
Some things, like defense, government must run. But unless they HAVE to run it, they should NOT.
yes, we all “have to” have health care. If we don’t, we can still get emergency care. But then we should be billed, and we should pay, just like any other debt. It is not fair to bill me for your chemo (or anything else). If someone has not insured themselves or does not have family or a charity to help, they should just be billed for life saving/necessary treatment and pay that bill; or their estate should. Sometimes there will be a loss. Cost of doing business in these United States.
and that’s all the health care interference we need from the government.
I agree then.
That however, is a HUGE thing to accomplish, and I don’t think it will happen.
But I am with you 100%. That would be ideal.
I think what cba123 may be alluding to is that the cat is already out of the bag with Obamacare. Even though not everyone is truly covered, the perception of the public is that everyone is covered if they want to be. We can debate the talking points and who is and isnt covered and if people are covered by Medicaid when not insired, but the simple relaity is that repealing Obamacare and going back to the way things were is not going to fly. Look at the furor over an EO restriciting visas for 200 people. Can you imagine the bloodletting if the narrative is 30 million people just lost their healthcare?
It is far better for Trump to fix the system using free market principles to address competition, drug costs, mandated services in plans and high risk high pools for those outside the system. It will get done, but the reality is, a pure free market, employer paid and consumer purchased system is not going to happen right now.
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