[perfect_rovian_storm]

I don’t have a lot of good will for people who continually post things that are untrue.

This is Trump’s health care plan:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform

You are now aware of it. Unless Ted Cruz is running on a campaign of getting rid of Medicare and Medicaid, I suggest you stop misrepresenting Trump’s position on health care.

I hope I don’t see you doing it again.

That was just the first sentence of the drivel you posted. I can’t be arsed to bother with the rest, but pretty much everything you posted was either ignorance or misrepresentation.

[Dr. Sivana]

This is Trump’s health care plan:

That is of course at odds with other statements he made during the campaign that he never walked back; good as the points listed on the website are, do not preclude the possibility of having mandated health insurance, which is more big government. Unlike Cruz, he doesn't even assure us that the birth control mandates won't make their way into the new version of whatever replaces Obamacare.

No sale.

[BlackElk]

OK, I red the link to Trump's health care plan. It is a BIG subject impossible to fully cover in one readable position paper.

If Bob Moffett, health care policy expert at Heritage, would approve this package as I believe he would, it would have to be a good start in my mind. I see little obvious to disagree with other than hammering doctors and hospitals yet again.

One great thing is that the paper suggests that Trump intends to go mano a mano against Big Pharma, one of the most corrupt special interests in a jungle of them and allow foreign competition to cut Big Pharma down to size. Maybe reduce the time before drugs go generic would be an improvement. He should also say he will refuse to stand still for the corrupt blunder of Bush the Younger in refusing to negotiate prices for Part D prescriptions.

I use clopadogril for about $3 a month. Before it went generic, the original drug Plavix cost $375 a month? This drug is necessary to avoid blood clots. What would it cost Medicare if I am hospitalized for blood clot surgery? BIG amounts of taxpayer $$$$$ can be saved by speeding the transition to generic status. Billy Tauzin can go straight to Hades.

I inject insulin and the price is a national disgrace. This is not some recent innovative drug. It is artificial, extremely widely used. Uninsured price is at leastt $450 for a 40-day supply and soaring rapidly. With Medicare Part D AND supplemental insurance, it is still a burdensome $47 for a 40-day supply. Diabetic complications for untreated diabetes include heart attacks, stroke, organ failures and many other extremely expensive hospitalizations and nursing home rehabilitation. Cut the damn drug price to a reasonable level by negotiation or subsidy and save mountains of taxpayer money and a lot of unnecessary misery. The medical condition that does not occur does not have to be paid for by anyone.

Finally, I have known Dr. Sivana for decades. He verrry occasionally errs but never intentionally. He is reasonable and gentlemanly in argument and scrupulous to a fault. He does not post "drivel." Nor does he post intentional misrepresentations.

[BlackElk]

Also, I have heard Trump say that he will spend as necessary on medical care for those who need it and cannot afford it. No problem with that on my part. I depend on Medicare and insurance and may be driven by drug costs and insurance premiums and limited income and medical necessity to apply for Medicaid. Trump's promise to sustain medical care for those of us who cannot afford it is an attractive part of Trump's campaign.

AND as you may know, I am no Trump fan overall. Truth, however, is truth. No one is suggesting with anything resembling adequate Congressional support doing away with or even seriously cutting Medicare and Medicaid in terms of services rendered. Not if they value their political necks.