Trump: 'Part of the Problem with Republicans' Is Opposition to National Health Care

The National Review ^ | February 21, 2016 | Tom S. Elliott

[Mollypitcher1]

Obviously you are voting for an illegal candidate. Shows how much regard you have for the U.S. Constitution.
I am voting for a businessman who has a chance of rebuilding America’s economy. You would rather listen to typical political rhetoric that tells lies and does any dirty deed to get elected and then plays ball with the opposition to keep the Uniparty in power. Don’t complain if your guy wins and America goes off the cliff, which it will. The ONLY candidate who puts America first is Trump.

[GeaugaRepublican]

So Obamacare’s impact on private insurance was of no impact. Will Trump’s plan expand Medicaid to cover people who can’t afford private insurance, like Obamacare wanted to do? If so, what will Trump do if the states say, “No thanks?”
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I don’t know. None of the Republican candidates running, have pushed forward enough detail to evaluate their healthcare proposals other than to state “Repeal and Replace Obamacare.”

I am not convinced that expanding Medicaid in its present form is the answer at all.

Whole Foods dealt with healthcare with their workers, who were not high income largely with health savings accounts.

I would prefer to all health care recipients to manage their care that way.

[JediJones]

I’m proposing the same thing that happens to people who don’t have car insurance, fire insurance, home insurance, etc. If you get slapped with a big bill and you don’t have insurance, pay it yourself.

[SaraJohnson]

He’s expressing that we are not going back to the “good old days” of “conservativism” where people with preexisting conditions could not get health care and we pawned off the cost to hospitals, many of which went under and they passed the cost off to insured people. People with small businesses or who were self employed could not get health care, either unless they were rich.

But we aren’t sticking with Obamacare, either. It will be something new. No one is going to return to what we had before Obamacare because it did not work.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So you want anchor babies serving as President. Great.

[Vaduz]

I am voting for a businessman.
If he wins don’t say you were not warned for he is clueless.

[Mollypitcher1]

You seem to have a low estimation of businessmen. Businessmen are the backbone of this country. Grow up.

[Mollypitcher1]

God only knows what all Trump is going to throw into Terrificcare so we have no idea if it’ll make things better? Or, more than likely, make things worse?
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How more than likely make things worse? They can’t get much worse than they are now. Try this on for size. Eliminate the state borders so that insurance companies become competitive instead of having a locked in monopoly. How about people being able to have health savings accounts? How about eliminating “Death Squads”? How about maintaining Medicare for the people who pay into it and Social Security for the people who have paid into it all their lives? How about bidding on drugs instead of just paying the bill presented complete with its kickbacks to various and sundry politicians? How about you CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR? We’ll just start there, more to follow, and ALL the above has been clearly stated by Trump INCLUDING TORT REFORM so that Doctors can stay in business!

[DoodleDawg]

Eliminate the state borders so that insurance companies become competitive instead of having a locked in monopoly.

Leaving aside the 10th Amendment and Supreme Court decisions that say he can't, what incentives will the government offer to get companies to sell across state lines? After all there is quite an expense for the insurance company; setting up local networks, negotiating prices, establishing rates. They won't do it on spec, and without financial incentives then there is no reason to believe a nationwide law allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines would be any more successful than the laws that states like Georgia or Wyoming were when they were passed.

How about people being able to have health savings accounts?

People can already have Health Savings Accounts. But they also have to have the money to put in one. There is a limit to how much you can contribute per year - around $3400 for an individual and around $6800 for a family - since they're also tied to high-deductible health insurance plans then it wouldn't take much to drain one.

How about eliminating "Death Squads"?

What is a "death squad"?

How about maintaining Medicare for the people who pay into it and Social Security for the people who have paid into it all their lives?

Trump has said he isn't going to change either plan. He hasn't said how he's going to fund it, but he hasn't said he's going to change it. But what does that have to do with healthcare for everyone?

How about bidding on drugs instead of just paying the bill presented complete with its kickbacks to various and sundry politicians?

I believe that the only government agency involved in prescription drugs that doesn't set a price is Medicare, and only on their prescription plan. Medicine billed as part of hospital stays has a set price. And they spend around $100 billion a year on the prescription plan; far less than the $300 billion in savings Trump promised. As for private insurance companies, they already negotiate prices.

How about you CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR?

Will you be able to under Terifficcare? How will Trump force doctors to do so?

... by Trump INCLUDING TORT REFORM so that Doctors can stay in business!

Over half the states in the country have tort reform capping awards in medical malpractice suits. And while there is considerable evidence that tort reform has reduced malpractice insurance rates in those states there is no evidence at all it has had any effect on healthcare insurance rates.

[Vaduz]

Your business man had a hell of a lot of help from id daddy he’s a spoiled rich kin who never grew up if he can’t win at something he just throws a lawyer on them.
He even tried to evict an old lady from her home in Vegas so he could build a limo parking lot yeah he sure sounds like a real leader time for you to wise up and grow up if it’s not to late.

[The Westerner]

No one asks what I once asked Gloria Steinem in a public forum: “By what right can you tell a business what to do with its money?” She sputtered out,”Does someone else want to answer that(because she had zero intellectual defense of her statist views, a complete zero intellectually.)”. At which point a young black woman turned toward me and sneered,”I can't believe anyone in this day and age would ask such a question!”

This was repeated when I challenged my professor at Columbia who also turned the answer over to the same brainwashed type young black person. I found that living in NYC, being a Laissez-Faire Capitalist can hurt your career. It was a lost cause back in the 70’s or 80’s to get any thoughtful, articulate response to my questions from the leading pseudo-intellectuals.

There is no reason to believe that Trump has an intellectual foundation for his beliefs. He is a NY Republican, pro-business, pro-Welfare State, pro-abortion (which will bring Independents into his campaign), he's not a great thinker philosophically, but he is a grand strategist who seems to live for the battle. And he seems to be pro-American. Sadly, that is the most I am hoping for in my next President!! The democrat party is purely anti-American now. I'm not counting on any politician to do anything that saves us.