The solution does not rest in one man...it is in the Constitution and "We the People".
Posted on 02/12/2016 6:47:29 AM PST by Sybeck1
I have been studying health care policy for 20 years now. I am also a multi-state licensed health insurance broker who continues to operate in an increasingly less competitive and more bureaucratically controlled system on both the federal and state level. During the last 20 years I have seen a lot of changes in the U.S. health care system. Some of them good (HIPAA) and some bad (Reagan’s EMTALA) the PPACA a.k.a. “Obamacare†etc.
During the last two decades I have read everything I could get my hands on pertaining to health care policy. I also spent the longest two weeks of my entire life reading the PPACA – Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act – shortly after it was passed into law on March 23, 2010. I have also appeared on television, radio and written expert commentary on health care policy on this blog and for professional business journals around the country. If there is one thing I know it is health care policy and if there is another thing I know it is a lie when I hear it.
I have bit my tongue long enough. As a delegate for Senator Ted Cruz I have been placed into a difficult and increasingly uncomfortable position and now I have had enough! Continuing to support Senator Cruz after he repeats incorrectly and ad nauseum that “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Obamacare“ and, that “if you vote Donald Trump, you vote for Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine.“ Or even worse that Trump, Clinton and Sanders “have the identical position on health care†has forced me into a crisis of conscience. These are statements that even the left leaning Politifact has correctly identified as FALSE.
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Hmmmm, now you are confusing me. Solid Trump supporters told me Trump supports Universal Healthcare as a replacement for Obamacare. Is that correct or not?
Please for your country’s sake do your homework.
Thank you very much, I've tried to do my homework and there is nothing on Trump's Presidential Candidate website, that I can locate, that has a policy showing what he plans to replace Obamacare with.
I've tried to listen to Trump to figure it out, but he doesn't say anything substantive beyond "we'll replace it with something great", uses some free market statements, then includes liberal phrases like "What I do say is, there will be a certain number of people that will be on the street dying and as a Republican, I don't want that to happen."
If you can direct me to his WRITTEN policy, I will be happy to study it instead of listening to people who "assume" they know what his plan is.
Well, you have got that right. I love your posts regardless of whether we always agree... which we actually do most of the time anyway.
Urgh. Why do you persist when the candidate himself has said those solutions worked there but would not work here?
At the Aug 6th Debate from Transcript:
“As far as single payer,” Trump says, “it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you’re talking about here.”
Then he says this:
“What I’d like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I’m negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid. You know why? Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians, of course, with the exception of the politicians on this stage. But they have total control of the politicians. They’re making a fortune.”
“UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES THAT DO NOT APPLY HERE, yes.”
Thanks. You do think single payer national health care is best.
What circumstances make it “not apply here”?
I actually would not disagree.
However Caesar built this juggernaut and Caesar will have to unbuild it. Folks who are thinking about reforming everything with a broad swoop restructuring, with a “delete *” repeal, are dreaming. We are not God, we can not do that.
It’s best in rural Scotland where the expertise is scanty and far between and it is many decades ago.
I know you want to dance all over Trump and say that this means he must, must, must consider it best in America today.
And that’s ridiculous and you know it is ridiculous.
Because some people are damn-a-holics.
That’s why.
From Aug 6th debate transcript:
"As far as single payer," Trump says, "it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here."
Then he says this:
"What I'd like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid. You know why? Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians, of course, with the exception of the politicians on this stage. But they have total control of the politicians. They're making a fortune."
From Trump's own words 2000-2016, all with links and dated
Truly but we must always reach for the light!
The solution does not rest in one man...it is in the Constitution and "We the People".
The problem is that other than Ben Carson none of the candidates are health care providers. Even Carson is a specialist who may or may not have a great understanding of typical healthcare challenges. All the candidates seem to have views that are somewhat skewed in a way that is not a tight fit with the current reality.
Other than spiking insurance rates, making the waits in emergency rooms even longer and causing more people to go to the doctor for inconsequential nonsense more frequently, Obamacare hasn’t changed much of anything about the way that health care is delivered to the “poor” in this country.
It is a giant headache for healthcare providers and increased government interference is causing many doctors to retire early or go into other fields. No one in this country was getting turned away when they needed emergency medical care before or after Obamacare. It was a solution looking for a problem that didn’t exist. Preventative care is an educational problem not a healthcare problem.
So that’s why you try to transform that mind.
DIG???
And if you’d just rub your eyes and LOOK...
You’d see that Trump is the biggest open door to that concept that we’ve EVER had!
He works with the ideas he has, not the ideas he does not have. But he’s come up with some pretty good plans based on the ideas he has, which set has GROWN over the years.
Nope...It doesn’t take transformation, it takes RESTORATION of the system back to the Constitution Republic.
Also it is a welfare program... for armies of government droids.
You trying to be smarter than the bible itself?
“Do not be conformed to this world but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your mind.”
I didn’t say this; God did.
That’s not what Trump said.
He said we could have done it, but messed up.
He never ruled it out. He never said it would not work the US.
It’s OK. He can think it is best. You can too.
Just don’t pretend. Don’t lie to yourself.
Silly me. How could I have ever misunderstood him when he said during this campaign, in reference to health care, “We have to take care of everybody. Sorry conservatives.”
/s
“Repeal and replace” means ‘I can do socialism better than Obama.’ Everything else is just spin. Take it to the bank.
YOU are the one who is lying to himself. YOU.
Trump was looking back to an older age of America.
That older age is not here. It won’t be here.
You want to keep lying that Trump knows nothing about progress from where you are, rather than where you might have wished you were.
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