That is a roundabout way of saying there are no core principles that you are willing to stand on. And that describes Trump to a tee.
What he can MEAN is, Obamacare can stay, if "Obamacare" comes to mean a return to the old, pre-Obama system and a destruction of state-lines that caused the insurance problem to begin with.
That is not what he is saying. He says he will repeal and replace. How could he retain Obamacare without removing the mandates and the coverage for pre-existing conditions and the coverage for adult children and the minimums that the policies need to meet? Remove that and what's left?
Or is the negotiation that Obamacare can stay if, for example, the restriction on across state line insurance purposes is enacted? Tenth Amendment issues aside, and ignoring the fact that it would do nothing to reduce costs, where is that any better than Obamacare?
When you are a politician, EVERYTHING is negotiable. It merely depends what your goals are, and how good a negotiator you are.
And in the Obamacare case what would Trump's goal in negotiations be? Do we even know? He says he wants to replace it but does he really, since he has no coherent plan on what he would replace it with? Is Trump really serious? Or is he just throwing out whatever he thinks the people he's talking to want to hear?
I actually believe that this 'leak' from the NYT was coordinated, by Trump, to signal the Elistist/Globalist party not to fear him. However, when he is in office, he might not be as much a pushover as they think.
I doubt. I think they know better than to trust him.
That is exactly what I wasn't saying.
I cannot help you. I need to move on.