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Trump’s main pitch often reduces to:
I’m gonna manage Big Government better.
D E S P E R A T I O N
I listened to Trump and I’ve read Trump.
Nothing incoherent at all.
There are 2 groups: (1) those who can care for themselves, and (2) those who can’t care for themselves.
The first group has private insurance purchased across state lines and health savings plans are an available vehicle for them to use.
The second group, those who cannot care for themselves, has the government provided health care.
Nothing hard to understand about that at all.
What people DON’T want to admit is that we and the government used to pay for those indigent walk-ins to doctor’s offices and hospitals anyway. We paid through increased premiums, hidden costs on bills, deductions from taxes owed to the government by both businesses and individuals who had been zinged by the increased costs of indigents getting help through good Samaritan and other laws.
Bringing it out in the open, Trump says we should just man up and pay it, quit trying to hide it in higher bills, and admit we won’t let people die in the streets.
I support it.
He will run it as well as his airline, I’m sure.
But since when is it the President’s job to run healthcare for everyone?
my two cents.
I have been on pills since 15. Mother was a nurse and always sending me to doctor.
till i woke up in my late 20s, i probably took 20,000 or more pills.
I needed maybe 100, for strep and pneumonia. out of all of them.
Once I broke the hypochondria, i got rid of the neurontin, the lyrica, the perccet, the Wellbutrin, the Zoloft, the xanax, and a few others.
Many were used for off label treatments.
The drug companies PAY the companies that decide if a drug is safe AND they only have to hand in to the FDA positive results if they want. the negative get tossed.
this can be fixed. by a non corrupt FDA and a tough pres.
I pick up my simvostatin and when I needed it, my BP medication at CVS an on the way out, i bought 10 kinds of jun food in their heavily junk food stocked aisles.
it’s free will an i bought them (i have since stopped for the most part), but does anyone fin it ironic that a Pharmacy sells more garbage than a deli?
it’s laughable.
I really don’t think that Trump’s economics are all that different from those of Hillary and Bernie. They all believe in the power of government controlled economic activity.
Don’t worry. Any issue you have with anything in Government, just tell Trump and he’ll make it great. How? Because he’s the Donald. Duh!!!
A little of the former and a lot of the latter.
While Trumps heart is in the right place, his supporters need to get constitutionally low-information Trump up to speed on the federal governments constitutionally limited powers. And regulating, taxing and spending for INTRAstate healthcare purpose is not one of those limited powers.
The Washington Examiner badly have TDS butt hurt.
“Furthermore, Trump throws around the term “competitive bidding” to make it sound like he knows what he’s talking about, but in reality Medicare already does use “competitive bidding” in the prescription drug program.”
Author is an idiot.
Medicare is forbidden by law to negotiate prices with pharma.
Bret Baier at THE FIRST GOP DEBATE asked why Donald Trump supported single-payer in 2000. Here’s his answer.
“As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.”
“Before it’s too late” what kind of judges would Donald Trump pick?
So, what is the difference between that and Obamacare?
I got my first medical training in a county hospital. In the first year I was there (1974), the big news was that they had to hire a billing firm (to bill Medicaid), because the hospital (since Walter Reed was an intern) had never sent a bill and they didn’t know how to do it.
The care was OK. We lived there, we were motivated, and if what was wrong with you was in a book, we did a good job. If you had a problem that wasn’t in a book, you were kinda screwed (unless we could figure it out), but hey, what do you want for free?
This system was being abolished as soon as I got to know it. America, and Americans, rebelled against “two classes” of medical care. To move the 20% “county population” into university and private hospitals (who definitely DID know how to send bills) would cost a few dimes, but, hey, it’s a rich country, right?
The subject of how to pay for medical and nursing services (with other people’s money) would take hundreds of posts.
But in THIS post, I just wanted to point out that, within living memory, we “took care of everybody”, we paid for it, we did an adequate job, and we could do it again - if liberals were not in charge to demand “equality”.