Posted on 01/16/2017 6:29:08 AM PST by mikelets456
Speaking with the Washington Post over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump promised that every American will have health insurance under his Obamacare replacement plan, which is set to be introduced in the openings months of his presidency.
Though he didn’t provide the Post with many details about his plan, Trump said the plan will provide “less expensive and much better” coverage to Americans that Obamacare has “in a much simplified form.”
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the Post. “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.”
“It’s not going to be their plan,” he added of people currently covered under Obamacare. “It’ll be another plan. But they’ll be beautifully covered. I don’t want single-payer. What I do want is to be able to take care of people.”
Trump explained that in addition to providing coverage to every American that needs health insurance, another major part of his plan will be to target pharmaceutical companies, especially those with high drug prices.
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The insurance companies lobby the commissioners to mandate coverage for things that a lot of people will never need and it makes it unaffordable. I would like to have a policy that doesn’t force me to pay for birth control, abortions, HIV, drug rehab, sex changes, maternity, pediatrics, etc., and maybe I could afford it. Also, I can pay for a routine checkup for myself rather than having a “free” one in my policy that is basically forcing me to pay for other people’s checkups.
You are right frnewsjunkie. I took notes and also made links of his interviews on this issue because a lot of media kept saying he wants single payer healthcare. My notes are as follows:
8-4-15 from Morning Joe MSNBC:
TRUMP QUOTE:
“It works for Canada. Not the U.S. I like private enterprise, create competition, private system, open the state lines. I want a lot of bidders. As for those who cannot afford healthcare, you have got to take care of those people. About 25% in this category. Work out deals with hospitals who are not doing that well right now.”
There are ideas. One of the main concerns is cancer. Let’s just say it: Cancer. It is #1 for costs with cardiac being a close #2. Next to cardiac in cost is long term acute care, then neonatal, then trauma care.
Hospital and physician costs are the primary drivers at 50% of costs in those five. Drugs costs come in third at 10% of total healthcare costs.
Those are the top five issues with the top three cost drivers. None of those are cheap and everyone is susceptible. Answer the question of how to pay for those nationally and the rest becomes trivial.
Mark Levin radio show 9-28-2015 (26:00 - 29:00 in audio-NOT SINGLE PAYER NO MATTER WHAT THE HEADLINES ARE SAYING. Mark wants to get Trump on his show to clarify whether this is an expanded role of govt. to help the poor when making deals with hospitals.
http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=2591&c=10771&f=4880723
Don’t you sound like a liberal nanny.
the blaze is trying to steer this subject to get people worked up .... its a false headline.. misleading.
“I’m a Trump supporter.”
Excellent. Then give him a chance to do the things you voted for him.
Collecting money is easy for government. Where it breaks down is in using the money to pay for the services in a way that is efficient and just. We all know government can never be efficient. "Just" is a religious concept, and is therefore completely outside the capacity of the state.
I have followed every word Trump has said about health insurance.. he’s never wavered from his position.. his goal is to make it affordable.. and it will never be affordable as long as government controls it. he wants one that will help people..
get one thing straight about Trump.. he cares
“Health Insurance originally evolved because of Government manipulation of market forces”
Actually, the health insurance problems started with companies hiring the MBA types in the 1950’s. Back then many companies offered private stock in the company so many professionals found about 30% of their income was derived in stock (or profit sharing). As a professional employees gained tenure their incomes became more and more profit sharing based; a true employee.
Companies found they could cut those costs by offering perhaps more salary and less promises of profit sharing to the younger new hires. That turned into less stock for more tenured employees too. That turned into a need to find other compensation mechanisms.
Healthcare was expensive at the time, so a group policy would save the group money, and if the employer paid some of it, that became a cost multiplier; meaning, an employee might have paid $50/month for insurance but using this employer compensated group plan they paid $15/month, giving them a perceived value of $35/month.
That turned into mandated insurance, which gave insurance companies the green light to go nuts since they now had a captive audience.
That gave the government a green light since so much money was out there and everyone in government wants their hand in it. Money = power.
Only 60 years later and the entire system has been perverted to the point of becoming useless.
Yes. He plans to save money up front when he opens up the state lines for competition and then make deals with hospitals for the poor who cannot afford it.
ok but what of those that can’t pay for themselves? This is where the left easily frame conservatives as uncaring. We have to define a policy that enables all people to get access to health care. This includes policies that reduce costs, which also enables access. If your “bill” is $1,000,000 could you pay that? Even $1000/month for insurance is out of reach for most.
I believe the real problem is that we have a system where each party is spending other peoples money. Even insurance is a form of socialism. When I have insurance the doctor has incentive to over prescribe, I also have no incentive to not get “the best”. If people were more inclined to shop around for the best rates costs would decrease. There’s so much wrong...
You are absolutely correct, and your post number 74 should be shouted from the rooftop to explain why. But we are where we are right now. That is the starting point. I am the only person I know who questions costs from docs and staff and all I get is,"Well, you have insurance, don't you?" or eyes rolling and the look as if I have two heads. And everyone agrees. People marvel at the new facilities. Why not? They have insurance or medicaid. As you say, no skin. So in the meantime, bills have to be paid.
Agree. I continue to advocate for the abolishment of "government schools". Privatize the lot ... It would require a (state) constitutional amendment in most States. This would be a very hard sell.
Agree. I continue to advocate for the abolishment of "government schools". Privatize the lot ... It would require a (state) constitutional amendment in most States. This would be a very hard sell.
The first insurance I had was in the late 50’s. It was hospitalization insurance. It covered hospitalization and that is all. We paid for dr visits and prescriptions. A dr visit was anywhere from $5 to $25. Prescriptions were usually around $10. Sometimes the doctors had the medicine and gave it to you with the visit.
Look what has happened to the costs and all involved after the government took over. Everything went up in price... because a person was not who paid the bill. it was the government.. it was an entity who they charged... not a person... however you want to look at it.. government is not the answer.
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