Posted on 04/06/2020 4:21:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Health care was already a vulnerability for President Donald Trump before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now his lack of a plan to fix the system is coming under a new microscope as the crisis costs many Americans their coverage and overwhelms providers.
The clarity in Trump's health care vision begins and ends with repealing the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, also known as Obamacare. His budget proposals would strip away funding for the law, and he has endorsed a lawsuit to wipe it off the books. But the president hasn't thrown his weight behind a replacement bill or even an outline, and he has rejected calls to reopen Obamacare for enrollment during the current crisis.
Trump's focus on mitigating the economic damage has kept health care on the back burner. Some allies worry that with millions of newly unemployed Americans poised to lose coverage during a public health crisis, Trump's lack of a plan for the needy will be a political liability in his re-election bid.
"Not having a plan for the rising uninsured yet seems to be a blind spot," Dan Eberhart, an oil executive and Trump donor, told NBC News. "The Democrats took the House in the 2018 midterms largely by having better answers on health care, so I think this could be a massive political liability in the fall.
"Trump has provided sober and strong leadership, but this could prove to be his Achilles' heel in November," he said.
The virus outbreak catches Trump in a bind, caught between fulfilling a 2016 campaign promise and the unpopular real-world consequences of ending ACA subsidies and protections that have become more salient for voters as the law faces credible threat of termination.
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All of this would happen, if we hand over our healthcare to the federal government. It's remarkable that few have mentioned this or connected these dots.
You misspelled “NBXi”.
Trump earns an A+ for his response. Kinda hard for anyone to say otherwise with a straight face.
It’s not just NBXi “News” / Comcast. They are all going after Trump - XiBS, ABXi/Disney, XiNN, pMSNBXi, all of them.
And now the media pivots to healthcare. I knew this was coming but I think once this clears people are going to be focused on the economy.
The “plan” for the rising unemployed will be to get them back to work as much as possible. THAT will be the “plan”, not more federal “work” programs.
Tucker is going to have a feast with this tonight.
Didn’t Obamacare take care of this already?
Our Healthcare Premiums went up 150% from 2013 to 2019.
The Communists always have a plan. It’s always drafted by the best and brightest bureaucrats who could not hold a real job. And it never works. Communists like this have no place in the US. I say, ship them to their paymasters in China.
NBXi
I like that!
If you want to keep your doctor you can but if your doctor won’t keep you it’s your problem.
The president, indeed, the federal government in general, is not responsible for developing a “health plan.” I wouldn’t trust one from them if they had one.
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