Posted on 11/29/2023 6:24:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Trump emphasized late Tuesday night that he wants to replace the Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as “ObamaCare” — rather than eliminate it entirely.
“Getting much better Healthcare than Obamacare for the American people will be a priority of the Trump Administration. It is not a matter of cost, it is a matter of HEALTH,” he wrote on Truth Social. “America will have one of the best Healthcare Plans anywhere in the world. Right now it has one of the WORST!”
“I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE,” Trump added in a separate post. “Obamacare Sucks!!!”
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I love Trump, but this is just BS.
Trump has never had a replacement plan for Obamacare. This is just typical politician BS to get the votes. I expect more from Trump honestly.
This is like W Bush and the RINO’s every election saying they wanted to overturn Roe and stop illegals. And then doing nothing once elected.
It’s a good thing to run on in a general election. Shows empathy and thr “suburban moms” are all about that even if children are being raped at the border.
This illustrates Trump’s problem, he does not believe in Federalism, and hubris prevents him from understanding that D.C. needs to be dismantled instead of fixed.
Congress eliminated the Personal Mandate within days of Trump threatening to force the Congress to enroll in Obamacare.
Now threaten to FORCE ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEE’S into Obamacare. They deserve the very best Health Insurance America has to offer, and that is Obamacare. Almost every Union, including Government employee unions held rallies in support of Obamacare, Eliminate ALL Waivers too for everyone.
Obviously the right call is to give it back to the capitalist market, as it was, but Trump either doesn’t understand this, or care. He likes and believes in big government, and just wants the power to control it all himself. Especially anything to do with medicine, vaccines, etc.
Those sort of comments don’t mean anything. He said similar things running in 2016 and while president. There is never any detail behind the comments.
I don’t expect more from him. I’m pretty sure in 2016 he said he was going to do this.
Trump is best at grandiose plans and blaming other people for his failures.
Which is fine — maybe other people are the reason he couldn’t do anything, but “I’m not able to get anything done because I can’t get past the opposition” isn’t really in the end better than “I just didn’t care to bother”.
One day, maybe we will care enough to actually accomplish things that we will elect someone who has a proven record of accomplishing things despite opposition.
But more often, we just hate on people who manage to get things done.
ObamaCare will eventually become a “Third Rail”, like Social Security if this isn’t nipped in the bud.
It would be a hoot if he replaces it with a truly free market, LOL.
At least I have confidence that Trump would actually sign legislation that would replace Obamacare if it were put before him (which it never will be)
W Bush and the RINO had complete control over numerous supreme court judges and time and time again picked RINO who undermined conservatives.
I will forever be indebted to Trump for at least picking real conservatives for the Supreme Court.
Trump needs to define the proposal, there are many floating out there, he needs to choose one.
First thing that needs to happen, is we need to decouple health insurance from employment. It puts American workers at a disadvantage, since companies don’t have to worry about insuring foreign workers.
This won’t happen without 60 senators. That ain’t happening soon.
“Trump has never had a replacement plan for Obamacare.”
The ACA has been highly controversial, despite the positive outcomes. Conservatives objected to the tax increases and higher insurance premiums needed to pay for the ACA. Some people in the healthcare industry are critical of the additional workload and costs placed on medical providers. They also think it may have negative effects on the quality of care.
But the real problem in my mind is the ability of the financial people in the system being allowed to determine the cost and money release of funds to pay for it. Understand, this is a politicial system designed by accountants and lawyers and not by doctors and patients. So basically the money providers have taken over the whole game by not getting doctors paid for accountants discretionary decisions and not the need or desire of healthcare. And if docs don’t get paid, they don’t heal, and patients die. So is it healthcare or high finance? It can’t be healthcarfe the way it is being aplied.
wy69
I’m with you a lot of knee jerk reactions here which is what the rats at The Hill would want. Trump is disarming the hacks who will accuse him of “ taking away the health insurance of millions of Americans” . It’s called strategy.
So every four years a presidential candidate has to pretend that he's going to fix it.
Meanwhile, telling people they have a God-given right to make other people pay their medical bills is like telling them they have a God-given right to live in Trump Tower for $500/month.
As an employer, I have said this for years. This is only likely to happen when a sizable majority of working Americans are working in jobs that either don't offer them insurance (because they aren't full-time employees) or have such exorbitant premiums for the insurance that they can't afford it anyway.
Once that happens, it will be much easier for Congress to take a huge step in the right direction by making employer-paid medical coverage a taxable benefit.
He is correct
Good for Trump... the current system basically benefits the corrupt health care industrial complex.
I love Trump, but this is just BS.
He will do everything he can to change things as president, just like he did with immigration.
Will he get it done, not completely but he will change what he can.
Too many here expect perfection. The world does not work that way.
It will take at least a generation to change things and that is our job, not Trumps.
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