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Donald Trump, in Exclusive Interview, Tells WSJ He Is Willing to Keep Parts of Obama Health Law
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/11/2016 | GERARD BAKER and MONICA LANGLEY

Posted on 11/11/2016 12:40:58 PM PST by Kevin C

NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump said that, after conferring with President Barack Obama, he would consider leaving in place certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, an indication of possible compromise after a campaign in which he pledged repeatedly to repeal the 2010 health law.

In his first interview since his election earlier this week, Mr. Trump said one priority was moving “quickly” on the president’s signature health initiative, which he argued has become so unworkable and expensive that “you can’t use it.”

Yet, Mr. Trump also showed a willingness to preserve at least two provisions of the health law after the president asked him to reconsider repealing it during their meeting at the White House on Thursday

Mr. Trump said he favors keeping the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of patients’ existing conditions, and a provision that allows parents to provide years of additional coverage for children on their insurance policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; antitrump; bs; liars; misleadingarticle; obamacare; openborderslobby; propaganda; replaceandrepeal; trump; trumphaters; wsj
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To: Kevin C

Don’t jump to conclusions. MSM is reeling. They’re trying to start trouble


41 posted on 11/11/2016 12:51:17 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kevin C

Make it

1. legal to sell insurance across state line;

2. make it legal for insurance co.s to offer any level of coverage they want;

3. legal for private citizens to pool resources to mutually cover medical costs to whatever level they wish, apart from insurance companies;

4. the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court erred when interpreting the penalty as a tax, and that it erred in accepting the Harry Reid sleight of hand origination scam.

Basically, undermine Obamacare by freeing people to buy whatever level of coverage they want from wherever they want. And set the predicate for the new SC to find that Roberts’ Obamacare ruling was wrong.


42 posted on 11/11/2016 12:51:25 PM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: manc

Me too! Trump is making nice right now. There are brutal choices ahead.


43 posted on 11/11/2016 12:51:41 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: kabar

They can be incorporated into the replacement plan.

run by the states or private entities.


44 posted on 11/11/2016 12:52:04 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Kevin C

I’m sorry, but the US media, and much of the world media, has no credibility with me, and they cannot re-establish it.

They’re fired.

As far as what is Trump going to do, just going to wait and see what he does and make up my own mind.

I’m not going to be whipped into a frenzy by known liars.


45 posted on 11/11/2016 12:52:12 PM PST by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: Kevin C

I hope he’s leaking lots of misinformation


46 posted on 11/11/2016 12:52:32 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: bigbob

I don’t want Trump to go any further outside the law to get this country great again than osamabama did.


47 posted on 11/11/2016 12:52:39 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Pete
Rework is the key. Any good leader will keep what works and replace what doesn't.

The layman doesn't understand what the contractual term "rework" means.

The existing ACA is unworkable and more than likely it will be replaced with a carryover of some workable elements. Depending on the extent of the carryover, it might be more proper to call it a repair or redesigned replacement.

48 posted on 11/11/2016 12:53:03 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Kevin C

Why believe the WSJ?


49 posted on 11/11/2016 12:54:15 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: sphinx

Charity/pay-it-forward programs sound like the thing here, but they’d have to be private, and the private parties would have to be able to fend off abuse. There cannot be even such thing as a quasi-government charity or it isn’t charity.

Otherwise yes, there isn’t an answer.


50 posted on 11/11/2016 12:54:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: chris37

Well if they console themselves by saying that yeah, Trumpcare has a piece of Obamacare in it, I’m not terribly exercised.


51 posted on 11/11/2016 12:55:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Paine in the Neck
How about take insurance coverage out of the hands of employer? Make everyone get their own level of health insurance according to their needs and keep the employer out of it. Why don't we make our employers pay for our auto insurance? Homeowners insurance?

If insurance companies were free to develop their own policy products I'm quite certain one of them would have thought to offer parents to include their adult children on their policies with an additional premium cost. After all, the young adults are the ones who use health care the least so you're levelling out the risk pool.

52 posted on 11/11/2016 12:55:57 PM PST by Shethink13
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To: Kenny
If he says the pre-existing condition and keeping kids til 26 pieces then he needs to let the insurance companies work out the numbers. If it’s truly portable and competitive, companies will try to keep those costs down.

Yep. Let the market determine the cost.

53 posted on 11/11/2016 12:56:20 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Kevin C

The only thing I wanted from him was to repeal obamacare.

Here we go, and he’s not even president yet.


54 posted on 11/11/2016 12:56:48 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: xzins

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, killed pre-existing conditions.


55 posted on 11/11/2016 12:56:48 PM PST by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
Well, I can believe it because most on plans have most or all of their plans underwritten by their employers. They are now considered children now to 26, give me a break. They vote at 18 though. IMO, if they are not emancipated as in on their own they should not be voting period. I look at the bums running amok on the colleges complaining about every gnat buzzing about as they scurry about in their cloistered environments with lefty professors pouring dribble into their mindless cranias and I cringe.
56 posted on 11/11/2016 12:57:21 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Kevin C

I am not against this. There are definitely parts of it that absolutely have to go: medical device taxes, minimum gradated levels of overage that have mandated coverage that is aimed at selfish little ho’s that want us to pay for their carelessness and the like. Risk is RISK. Those risky people should PAY for it and not expect the rest of us to subsidize this. The best part of it could be insurance companies being allowed to insure across state lines to the whole country. And, there is also this subsidization stuff that also needs to be dealt with.


57 posted on 11/11/2016 12:57:38 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Pete

No. No reworking. Repeal. Replacing it is a separate step.

REPEAL OR YOU MIGHT FIND SOME OF US TAKING IT TO THE STREETS!


58 posted on 11/11/2016 12:57:47 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Shethink13

Employment provided at least a crude screen. If you aren’t falling over so bad you can’t even work, then you’re a more quantifiable cost.


59 posted on 11/11/2016 12:58:18 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Shethink13

I misspoke by saying “Make”. There should be no mandate to purchase insurance. Perhaps “make it more financially wise” for people to purchase their own insurance.


60 posted on 11/11/2016 12:58:39 PM PST by Shethink13
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