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[[ If Canada’s socialist health care is so great (the Canucks think it is)]]

Actually many don’t think it is- and we have personal first hand knowledge of just how bad it is as friends nearly died awaiting routing surgery, and then readmittence after the botched surgery- many many horror stories about canadian HC Massive waiting periods- doctors rushing patients through without proper care- being sent out of hospitals way too soon (which is what happened ot friend after their botched surgery despite protests from person that something wasn’t right-

Welcome to socialist universal healthcare-

Accordign to trump- the govenrment is going to take care of everyone- He3 claims he iwll ‘save $300 billion a year negotiating drug prices’ Yet the total cost of negotiated drug prices was only $78 billion total- so apparently He’s goign to make $220 billion dollars doing nothing but ‘negotiating’ drug companies are evidently going to pay him above and beyond the actual costs of the drugs?

He states that ‘noone should have to pay if they don’t want to’ then turns around and says everyone will have health insurance, and that ‘noone will die on the streets’ (we actully already have laws that the poor must be treated- even before obamacare hospitals could not refuse the poor-)- but in order to be able to make sure ‘the peopel o nthe streets, AND peopel with preexisting conditions get coverage, you must have a mandate- or take people’s money soem other way-

Insurance companies have stated over and over again, the only way it’s possible for preexisting conditions to be covered is to have a mandate- the system fails without a mandate- Taxes on the rich (another liberal ideal trump supports) won’t cover it, block grants for states to take over medicaid won’t do it- Tax deductions for the insured won’t accomplish it- His idea of ‘creating competition among insurance companies’ will not raise enough to cover them- none of what trump proposes can cover preexisting conditions

Trump’s plan would remove the mandate, but still require the exact same thing obamacare does- that insurance companies cover preexisting conditions- Insurance companies nly agreed to obamacare because they were assured that mandates would cover what they could not in the first place- now trump is going to strip that income away, and essentially leave it up to the companies to fend for themselves through ‘competition that has no prayer of begin able to fund preexisting conditions- It’s basically obamacare without the mandates- but it is hte mandates that are the keystone that is supposed to hold the whole arching mess together- The keystone isn’t even able to support the arch under this mess called obamacare, but now we’re talking about removing the only thing temporarily propping he mess up?

Unless he’s got some way of raising the cash for preexisting conditions WITHOUT stealing from people’s paychecks, or via higher taxes- then no amount of ‘competition is going to work- Rubio, in the debates with Bash— much as i didn’t like him- tried to get this across to him- it didn’t sink in- I’m afraid that simply declaring that his plan Is “going to be unbelievable’ doesn’t make it believable - While he’s no doubt got smart folks working o n the issue- as the plan stands now- it’s obamacare light- without the funding no less-