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TRUMP POSITION PAPER: HEALTHCARE REFORM TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Donald J. Trump for President ^ | 3/2/16 | Donald Trump

Posted on 03/03/2016 7:07:48 AM PST by Jim W N

On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market principles and that will restore economic freedom and certainty to everyone in this country. Congress must act. Our elected representatives in the House and Senate must:

1. Completely repeal Obamacare.

2. Modify existing law that inhibits the sale of health insurance across state lines.

3. Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system.

4. Allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

5. Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals.

6. Block-grant Medicaid to the states. The state governments know their people best and can manage the administration of Medicaid far better without federal overhead.

7. Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allow; business; constitution; dyingonthestreets; government; hopeandchange; singlepayer; trump; trumpallows; trumpandcharge
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To: Jim 0216

Needs to include tort reform. Stop the lawyers from driving up the cost of healthcare and medcal research.


61 posted on 03/03/2016 7:59:17 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Red Badger

That’s what your congressman is for
To refine the details


62 posted on 03/03/2016 8:00:11 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Jim 0216; All
So far, Trump doesn’t show himself to be flaming Leftist so many so-called conservatives say he is.

And that's the thing - he's not a flaming leftard. In fact, he's right on a lot of issues - immigration, guns, taxes, common core, and now health care. In fact, he's actually not even really that bad on abortion, unless one chooses to disbelieve that he changed on that issue between 1999 and 2014.

Personally, I believe that a lot of the sturm and drang about Trump that we're seeing is coming about more from hurt feelings than anything else: there are a lot of Rubio and Cruz folks out there who have taken it personally that the voters aren't choosing their candidates despite their repeated, insistent, urgent warnings that ONLY THEIR CANDIDATE CAN SAVE AMERICA.

63 posted on 03/03/2016 8:00:46 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: ken5050

What do you propose in place of medicaid? I personally know many doctors who accept medcaid patients.


64 posted on 03/03/2016 8:01:33 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: GIdget2004

Having released this broad outline just before the debate, you’d better believe that the moderators are going to ask for specifics in the debate tonight, and he’d better have better answers than he did in the last debate.


This is more specific than anything the Dems have offered and they give them a pass. the Donald knows that many of get this business oriented approach of set the objectives first and deliver the results based on incremental steps along the way once the full depth of the obstacles are uncovered.

He’s not privy to most of those yet as the sitting senators / governor should be...


65 posted on 03/03/2016 8:01:55 AM PST by patriotspride
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To: lodi90

Yup. Cruz wasn’t shaking and making jokes like Rubio, but he’s been saying the same things like fraud, tax cheat, mobster, racist, etc.

Hannity and Rush were outed as Establishment puppets and they’ve turned on Rubio per their orders.


66 posted on 03/03/2016 8:02:27 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: Jim 0216

I don’t need to read this, because Ted Cruz already told me that Trump is for 100% single-payer socialized healthcare for every American.


67 posted on 03/03/2016 8:03:39 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Utmost Certainty

Cut the insults asshole.


68 posted on 03/03/2016 8:04:32 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

Good point. That piece should be included.


69 posted on 03/03/2016 8:05:22 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ken5050
Medicaid? Really?

There are NO doctors that accept it...this does nothing..

OK then, let the stupid, lazy and less fortunate (Medicaid clients) die in the streets! < /sarc >

Seriously, NO doctors accept Medicaid patients?

70 posted on 03/03/2016 8:06:17 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: over3Owithabrain

Hannity, Rush, and Levin came out as establishment puppets when they collaborated with Obama on suppressing talk about his stolen SS number, his forged draft registration (which makes him ineligible for any federal job), and the forged birth certificate.

The three of them are in it for the money. They are not in it to expose the truth.


71 posted on 03/03/2016 8:07:14 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Jim 0216

Good Trump adopted Cruz’s plan.


72 posted on 03/03/2016 8:10:37 AM PST by Leto
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To: KittenClaws
As a Cruz supporter, I was reading Trump's position paper and found it to be just what we need right now - I was impressed.

As a Trump supporter, here is what I think Ted should say tonight at the debate:

"Donald, I read your proposal and I was very impressed. If you mean what you say, and the presidency should befall you and you implement this proposal, it would go a long way to fixing the horrible shortcomings of ObamaCare.

I happen to like my plan better ... but I applauded your well thought out proposal."

That would be the end of it ... they could go on to the other issues they disagree about ...

73 posted on 03/03/2016 8:21:17 AM PST by dartuser
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To: Jim 0216

“Wow. No Cruz-accusation-of-expanded-socialized-medicine here that I can find.”

That is correct, mostly because that is basically the same plan Cruz has been talking since early last year. Of course, it is good to have Trump endorse him this way. Very statesmanlike to support someone else’s ideas. Kudos to Trump on this.


74 posted on 03/03/2016 8:54:40 AM PST by jstaff
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To: Buckeye McFrog
so, he’s off the single payer?

Single payer works for me. The user of the service pays. Whether he gets the money out of pocket, from insurance, as a benefit from a paid-for health plan or from Medicare or Medicaid is another issue. All of them have a place in the scheme of things.

75 posted on 03/03/2016 8:59:47 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Signalman; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator

FYI guys.

I don’t know how stuff gets on the “Breaking News” Sidebar, but I think this is something everyone should see and if you agree can you put it there for all to see? Thanks.

This is wonderful EXTRA good news.


76 posted on 03/03/2016 9:02:32 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Where is tort reform? It should be number one.


77 posted on 03/03/2016 9:07:52 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Kirkwood

Separate issues same result - artificially forced higher healthcare costs and prices.

First: Repeal Obamacare and get the federal government out of healthcare. Check

Second: Fix malpractice awards.

I’d like to hear ideas on what that second step would look like. How would you go about fixing malpractice awards?


78 posted on 03/03/2016 9:08:03 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Arthur McGowan

I know. Didn’t Trump hear Cruz? How dare Trump contradict Cruz with an actual documented proposal on healthcare.


79 posted on 03/03/2016 9:10:23 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

That’s just beautiful. It’s a great plan to start.

I had an HSA with a prior employer. Loved it! Had high deductible and employer put $275 a month into my HSA to compensate for High Deductible plan. If I didn’t use that, I made money every month since HD plan cost $120 a month to cover me and daughter.

You are far more careful with your health dollars when it comes from your personal HSA. I would always tell docs to be sure to give generic drugs and that I was paying from personal acct and they would give me the “cash discount” cost. It was wonderful.


80 posted on 03/03/2016 9:11:24 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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