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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Trump wants a healthy, thriving insurance market brimming with choice along with a government backstop for those who can’t afford coverage.
Works for me.
Do you know anyone on Obamacare who loves it?
We don’t.
My bet is they’d love a better, more affordable option.
“My bet is they’d love a better, more affordable option.”
A. I don’t know of anyone on it. Some I know might use it but they haven’t shared their status with me.
B> The better, more affordable option is what we’re still waiting for.
What facts do you have to support your comment?
IIRC, Pres Trump wanted to pretty much dismantle the VA in its current form and give disabled vets, basically, an insurance card where they could get the best medical care available to them, without having to go to a VA hospital. Thus eliminating VA hospitals.
Is that not a step in dismantling the federal government.
Just the fact that he said he had a plan to replace Obamacare before he was elected the first time and never came forward with it after being elected.
Let’s see:
Option 1
Produce a new plan that could/would be better, with lower costs…..while still NOT getting rod of the old, inefficient, more costly plan.
So, then you have the taxpayer paying for two plans.
Option 2
Work with Congress to scrap the inefficient and wasteful old plan. Save the money and then present the new plan that might be better.
Hmmmmm…..are we forgetting about members of Congress campaigning in repealing the AHA and then them stabbing us all in the back when they voted against repealing the AHA?
I’m pretty sure that one Nancy Pelosi is most responsible for that.
No reason an individual shouldn’t be allowed to deduct heath insurance premiums in the same manner that businesses do.
And a fantastic first step would be to implement Dr Carson’s plan that was spelled out in front of soetero.
Trump can’t just start with a blank canvas, he needs to champion Carson’s plan.
Well. One of the first things he did was try to repeal the AHA. And those that campaigned on that turned their backs on him and us.
It’s pretty amazing. A guy with a business background, where getting the most for your money is job 1, says he has a plan. And everyone wants the details and trashes him for not putting it out there.
Pelosi says that a 2000+ page spending bill has to be passed so we can see what’s in it and no one says a word.
When he had Mnuchin, Ross, et al renegotiating trade deals for the benefit of the country and US workers, what were your thoughts on the details of those plans and negotiation strategies?
True, which makes his statement about replacing Obama care all the more concerning.
Trump's policy initiatives often seem to be "one step forward and two steps back".
I think Carson’s plan is pure genius.
And we don’t know if he’s starting with a blank canvas.
Guys been running his businesses for a very long time, employee provided health insurance being a big part of that business.
Is it possible that he’s learned a thing or two from that? Is it possible that he’s spoken to insurance folks that have great ideas?
I’m not saying he’s perfect by any stretch. But he still has to deal with an obstructionist Congress.
He’s trying to make radical changes to a broken system like a CEO.
That system fights against change, tooth and nail, as you and I both know. Too much money to lose if things change.
As Thomas Sowell explained “replacement” of Obamacare...
“You don’t ask the doctor what he is going to replace with the cancer he is removing”
My crap obamacare plan just announced a $200 a month increase. What a bargain.
I agree with you, and I am in awe of Trump's intestinal fortitude.
He left a comfortable life and jumped into the fire with open eyes to save the country.
However a CEO must have a consistent and clear vision which unifies and inspires during difficult times, and unfortunately Trump has failed to do this.
IMHO it is because he has not been a Conservative long enough to reflexively act and communicate as one.
Well we agree that he certainly would have signed anything that was put before him that repealed or replaced Obamacare. My beef is specifically that he said he had a “plan” before being elected in 2016, and 7 years later still hasn’t told us what that plan is.
Healthcare is going to be a mess and government is going to be mixed up in health care no matter what. Maybe the health care system can be improved, but presidents only have so many chances to get things done, and it’s best not to use one of the early shots on health care when there are so many other things that need doing.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
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