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'His Achilles' heel': Coronavirus crisis highlights Trump's lack of health care plan
NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | April 6, 2020 | By Sahil Kapur

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anotherhitpiece; bias; fakenews; fakenewsnbc; gettrump; journalism; liberalmedia; media; mediabias; nbcfakenews; nbxi; nbxinews; notobjective; obamacare; presstitutes; smearcampaign; virus
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To: Drango
Trump's "plan" has exposed how a national healthcare system would work in this country. The shortages of critical products like masks, the misappropriation of supplies, the politics involved with coming up with treatments, and the finger-pointing--

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.

21 posted on 04/06/2020 6:12:03 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBXi


22 posted on 04/06/2020 6:22:12 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

You misspelled “NBXi”.


23 posted on 04/06/2020 6:23:09 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump earns an A+ for his response. Kinda hard for anyone to say otherwise with a straight face.


24 posted on 04/06/2020 6:24:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s not just NBC “News” / Comcast. They are all going after Trump - CBS, ABC/Disney, NYT, WaPo, CNN, pMSNBC, all of them.

It’s not just NBXi “News” / Comcast. They are all going after Trump - XiBS, ABXi/Disney, XiNN, pMSNBXi, all of them.

25 posted on 04/06/2020 6:26:25 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


26 posted on 04/06/2020 6:29:58 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


27 posted on 04/06/2020 6:31:52 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tucker is going to have a feast with this tonight.


28 posted on 04/06/2020 6:32:16 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Didn’t Obamacare take care of this already?

Our Healthcare Premiums went up 150% from 2013 to 2019.


29 posted on 04/06/2020 6:33:54 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


30 posted on 04/06/2020 7:19:06 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: an amused spectator

NBXi

I like that!


31 posted on 04/06/2020 7:28:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you want to keep your doctor you can but if your doctor won’t keep you it’s your problem.


32 posted on 04/06/2020 8:08:01 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


33 posted on 04/06/2020 9:31:38 AM PDT by IronJack
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