Trump: Let Obamacare Fail

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to expand on something here that I just saw President Trump say right before the end of the previous hour. He said that his plan now is to just let Obamacare fail. He’s not gonna own it. He’s just gonna let it fail. Which he’s been saying for months. He said, you know, the smart thing politically for him to do be let it fail and let the Democrats absorb all the blame. Let Obama and the Democrats take the blame. Just let it fail. But Trump said — as a show of good faith — he was gonna work with people to try to replace it, to repeal and replace it rather than just to let it implode, let it fail.

Now, we know that the Trumpster engages in The Art of the Deal at all times, and so this statement of his, which was stated in… It looked like he was in the Cabinet Room. Pence was sitting next to him. A lot of people were there. All the media camera shutters were clicking and flicking there, so this got a wide audience. “I’m just gonna let it fail. I’m not gonna own it. I am not gonna sit here and own this. If this is the way it’s gonna go, I’m just gonna let it fail.” He could be negotiating; he could be serious.

He could mean it that he’s just going to sit by and let the thing fail, and that means old Mitch and the boys can go in there and fail to repeal it and that means Obamacare remains the law of the land. This is where it gets interesting. Obamacare is imploding. It is in the process of consuming itself. If Trump follows through and just says, “I’m gonna let it fail,” and we just sit by and watch premiums go up 45, 50% every year… As we watch insurance companies pull out of the exchanges, as we watch the subsidies end, as we watch the exchanges close, as nobody’s able to buy insurance…

You have the Trump opposition in the, quote, unquote, “elite club” known as the establishment.

What are they gonna do now? See, the objective in the original design of Obamacare was to fail. But it was supposed to fail with Hillary Clinton or another Democrat in the White House. And at the moment of failure, it was then to be suggested almost as a brilliant spur-of-the-moment idea, “Hey, why don’t we just go single payer,” or, “Hey, why don’t we just put everybody on Medicare? Hey, problem solved!” Because at that time, that point in time, premiums would be out of reach, deductibles out of reach, insurance companies closing down and closing up shop, exchanges closing up shop. So it’d be eagerly demanded even maybe by the public.

But now we’ve got Trump who doesn’t want to go single payer, and this the Democrats and the establishment know. So there are two options here, and it’s interesting to note that if you listen to the media and you listen to the Democrats, repealing Obamacare is the worst thing that could be done, but it isn’t. Staying with Obamacare and letting it implode is the absolute worst outcome here. Repealing it means you repeal it. You get rid of every Obamacare law, and that means you start over. But it also raises a question: At what point do you…? Where do you resume?

If Obamacare is repealed and those laws are gone — there are no exchanges, there are no subsidies — then at what point in the past do we go back to? Well, it’s the Wild West, folks. It’s the Wild West. If we repeal it, it’s the Wild West, and then you’re gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something. This is the theory of the optimists at the vote failure yesterday and last night, that this exact scenario would result, and that the lack of any formal federal health care law (other than what might still be on the books that we’d revert to) will cause, will create the need for immediate legislative action.

Otherwise, it will be said that the insurance companies will once again be in charge of health care because they’re the ones that sell policies. And you can’t get coverage if you don’t have a policy, ’cause it’s so expensive, you can’t pay for it yourself. So that’s Trump’s ultimate… I don’t know if you call it “threat,” but that’s his negotiating position. “Okay. If we can’t vote to repeal this thing, I’m standing by and I’m letting it die. I’m letting it implode. I’m gonna let it fail, and it’s on the Democrats, and I’ll make sure everybody knows it’s on the Democrats.

“I am not gonna own this sucker. It isn’t mine. I had nothing to do with it. I’ve engaged in good-faith efforts to fix this and people aren’t interested. So, fine. If you’re not interested, establishment, you live with the results.” I’m here to tell you: The results of Obamacare imploding are far worse than Obamacare being repealed. Do you agree with me on that, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) I don’t even think it’s arguable. Everybody agrees. Democrats agree. Well, Nancy Pelosi doesn’t yet see it. She still thinks President Bush is in office running around.

I think she really does, actually. (interruption) Well, I don’t think they care if Pelosi starts imploding. That doesn’t matter. They’re out of party, doesn’t matter. They can shove her off to the side where nobody’s looking and run the show. If the Democrats were in charge, if she was the speaker and were imploding, that’d be problem. But now they can cover it. They can send her off to the home and nobody would know. Just run old Nancy Pelosi videotapes ripping into Bush and Trump and it’d work. But that’s off the topic. Obamacare in place where people can’t afford insurance and they can’t afford the deductible, they can’t afford to use their policy?

The law still says you have to buy it. Remember, the mandates are still there. The fines are still there. Everything’s still there if it isn’t repealed in its present downward spiral, which everybody agrees is happening. Just like everybody agrees the Russians affected the election (laughing), everybody agrees that Obamacare is spiraling out of control. I’m telling you, repealing it would be a much better outcome for people than just sitting with it while it evaporates, and that’s what Trump is threatening to do. Could be a negotiating position.

Could be the case. In any event, our last caller had a great attitude: What if Trump actually decides at some point when it comes to time to reconstitute American health care and they do it legislatively, to bring in some of these outside private sector people and just have ’em do it. Have ’em write legislation. It’s no different now than having it written on K Street. It’s not written in Congress. Most legislation isn’t. But an outright repeal is a political… I wouldn’t say must, but it’s certainly the Republicans have promised this so many times that they have to…

(sigh) It still comes down to this fascinating question to me, and the caller said it’s not the answer to the question they’re afraid of. Here’s the question. Ted Cruz… Let me set this up by reminding you what Ted Cruz has told me I don’t know how many times. He told me in the last interview he just did last week for upcoming issue Limbaugh Letter, that the thing that shocked him more than anything his first few days in the Senate was how 90% of what senators do is get reelected. Ninety percent of their time is spent raising money, organizing fundraisers, dealing with the consultants and all who raise the money, planning the events.

The other 10%’s being a senator. It shocked him. It was that blatant, that obvious. Why? Because getting reelected is the most important job every senator thinks he has. Probably to a degree this is true in the House, but he was speaking specifically of the Senate. And yet, if getting reelected is the most important thing, then a question occurs to me.

All of these promises and all of these votes to repeal Obamacare since 2010, now when they have the power to actually do it, they don’t do it, they can’t do it. After all these promises, after all these times being elected on the basis of that promise, and yet they obviously don’t fear the voters in their states nearly as much as they fear something else.

They are clearly willing to incur your wrath at reelection time. They would much rather do that than deal with whatever is gonna happen to them if they vote to repeal it. They’re afraid of somebody. They are concerned about somebody or something, but it isn’t you. Despite the most important thing in their lives, being reelected, that’s what you do. So who is it that they’re more afraid of than you? Who is it that they are the least interested in angering?

Well, yeah, money people, but I want get more specific than that. Of course it’s the money people, the donors and all that, but who are they, and what threat do they have? What threat do they have that can make elected officials more fearful of them than of you? ‘Cause if you don’t show up, whatever else happens is academic. It has to be the fact that whoever it is they’re afraid of can supply them with, in their minds, enough money to win reelection no matter what your opinion of them is.

But it all circles around money, understandably. And there’s nothing new about that. I’m not claiming to have discovered anything earth-shattering here. But I just find it interesting. So on the table, Donald Trump: I’m gonna let it fail. I am going to let it fail. I am not gonna own this. This is an utter failure, utter disaster. I’ve tried. I worked with people. Obviously we don’t have enough Republicans who want to vote this way. We need more Republicans in 2018, but I’m gonna let it fail ’cause I am not owning this baby.

So failure, which is Obamacare, stays in place with all of its problems, expenses, failures versus repealing it. I’m telling you, the most painful choice here is leaving Obamacare in place.

So, all that mocking of Obama for blaming Bush for everything years into his presidency was actually meaningless, because the Republicans plan to do the exact same thing.

Seriously, explain to me how you can go to voters in 2018 with a promise to repeal Obamacare.

The only ones who can go to voters in 2018 and promise to repeal are those not currently in office.

We need to primary every Republican Rep and Senator who did not push hard for repeal. Get them out and get someone in who can do the job.

The Donald is exposing the others side’s bottom line.

They don’t want to repeal Obamacare?
Eff ‘em. Let ‘em choke on it.
It’s them, not Trump that made this disaster.

He always comments that, sometimes you have to walk away to get the other side to the table.

When the SHTF, they will come back.

Then the negotiations begin.

We need to primary every Republican Rep and Senator who did not push hard for repeal

Then you'd be playing their game. Those who would be in danger of being Cantorized did push hard for its repeal. In the US Senate, they aren't all up for election. That means those that are can say whatever they need to say to get re-elected.

They're all equally guilty. It would only take one of them with a good staff to seriously work for a solution. No one, either party, is. We know that because NONE OF THEM even mentions cutting out obscene profits to pharmaceutical, medical, insurance, and care-giver entities. In fact, now they want to throw billions of dollars at opioid addiction, even though nobody knows what cures that.

They're all against us and aren't going to change. President Trump should just do what he can do through the executive branch and let the Swampthings keep making *sses of themselves. Perhaps he can leave us in better shape for when the nation inevitable self-destructs.

There still will be some who will blame the Republicans for not replacing Obamacare with something superior. It would have been better to let it fail before expending all that sond and fury trying to replace it and failing.

When the SHTF, they will come back.

Then the negotiations begin.

Complete and utter nonsense. When the sh*t hits the fan the Democrats will be out there saying, "You had insurance and the Republicans took it away from you." Why would they want to negotiate the Republicans out of that mess?

“There still will be some who will blame the Republicans for not replacing Obamacare with something superior.”

Yep. I’m one of them. If I hire people to fix a broken gas pipe in my house, I expect them to fix the broken gas pipe. If they’ve got all the tools they need but don’t get it done because they’re too busy fighting among themselves, you bet I’m gonna hold them to account when my house then burns down.

‘Do nothing and just let it fail’ is a strategy we could get just as easily (and much cheaper) from empty chairs.

Trump: Let Obamacare Fail

Greatest U.S. President EVER!
He understands market incentive.

Trump Jr 2024 2028
Eric Trump 2032 2036

By this time, America will be FREE AGAIN! :-)

The REPLACE Socialist Republicans now come out of the woodwork.

His neighbor is in slave chains and ringing cow bell collars, but darn it, I want to keep eating my red velvet junk food and pizza. And my darn neighbor is gonna care for me when I get sick.

>>>In order for it to fail you have to quit funding it!

“NO GAMES! HOUSE @GOP MUST DEFUND OBAMACARE! IF THEY DON’T, THEN THEY OWN IT!”) - Trump Tweet from September 2013

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