Posted on 02/19/2016 10:21:57 AM PST by Rockitz
During Thursday’s CNN Townhall event, when pressed by moderator Anderson Cooper on the “benefits†of the ObamaCare mandate, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said, “Well, I like the mandate.†He then went on to blast ObamaCare as a “disaster†and President Obama as a liar.
Trump made clear that he is not for single payer healthcare and wants to allow private insurers to compete across state lines. Trump is, however, in favor of taking care “of those who cannot take care of themselves.†We do not want “people dying on the streets,†Trump said.
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See #80.
see #80
And Trumps supporters will still only Trump can undo 0bamas damage.
Well, not THAT mandate, obviously, though one certainly would like to know just what mandate he DID mean.
(Might even be in there, might even boil down to something pretty noncontroversial, but it is so much fun to hit and run ain’t it.)
Even if the "cross state lines" prohibition is removed, you cannot pre-suppose that the Texas insurance company wants to service users in Wyoming. Part of the reason the Texas insurance is cheaper is because that insurance company had already developed a network of physicians, pharmacies and billing processors in Texas. If you don't have a Wyoming network, why would you offer insurance to a Wyoming market that you cannot properly service.
Removing the state line prohibition is only helpful if an insurer has redundant, duplicative netwroks in multiple states.
This concern notwithstanding, he’s still not running for king, even though Obama thinks he is.
His being at least nominally GOP, now the Congress can feel free to jump all over Trump about anything like this. When it would be so un-PC to jump all over Obama.
I doubt this is Trump’s “final answer.” He’s doing what he can with the advice he has gotten.
I am not ashamed because I spoke the full truth.
Jim Robinson’s favorite candidate, the one he is going to vote for in the primary, is NOT DONALD TRUMP. It’s Ted Cruz.
Mic drop.
There could be meta-insurers that would fill the networking holes. Not a super huge problem.
Sometimes the mode does seem knee jerk. Whoever touched the third rail last, is the loser du jour.
What provision in the Constitution of the United States give the Federal Government the right to force you to have a "health plan"?
Are you actually in favor of the mandate?
If so then I don't want to see you criticizing John Roberts ever again. John Roberts had to twist the constitution into a pretzel in order to declare the legitimacy of an individual mandate to purchase or obtain health insurance. Trump favors that in order to lower the costs of other people. In other words, put the healthy people into a pool to help pay the medical bills of people who live unhealthy life styles.
Sometimes I can't believe what I read on this forum.
For those who walk in and get care.
If they let the witchdoctor do it, then I’m ok with that.
That is how one taps in to others' fantasies. Present things in such a way that people hear what they want to hear. It's all in his book.
What is amazing is how many people who tell me to read that book staunchly believe he only uses those techniques on others and is being brutally honest with only them.
So the federal government has the authority under the constitution to protect people from doing stupid things?
xzins, is that you?
Did someone hijack your computer?
I’m having fun.
IF IF IF IF FI FO FUM
IF you walk through the door of a hospital and don’t have insurance then you’ve just proven you are a dunce.
Maybe a nice dunce, but nonetheless a dunce.
Yeah, that would be a big difference to what’s happening now.
X, I literally went half my life without health insurance. I paid for my medical care for myself and my family by myself. The doctors worked with me on expensive tests and generic drugs. I took the risk that if something serious went wrong, it could bankrupt me. But it was my risk to take and it was none of the Federal Government's business. If the Federal Government wanted to subsidize my stupidity by paying any bills that I could not pay, then that was the Federal Government's problem and not mine.
I am blessed to have insurance now through my work, but honestly if I had put away the money that my employer and I have spent on my insurance since then and made the right investments, I'd be as rich as Donald Trump right now.
If the Federal Government thinks it has an obligation to pay for the medical treatment for people who can't afford it, then that is their problem, not mine.
Forcing a person merely because they exist to purchase a product is tyranny.
The MANDATE is TYRANNY!
I know freddy the freeloader.
She was a lady from our church. When she got tired of her husband or wanted a break she’d call the ambulance and get a few days in the hospital on the public dime.
What about her?
So why is the Federal Government getting involved in my stupidity?
Why should we allow the Federal Goverment to force me to do something they think is wise? Shouldn't I as a free born American have the right to control my own destiny without MANDATES from the Government to purchase something they think is good for me?
Do you agree with Roberts that THE MANDATE is constitutional? Or do you agree with every single republican who voted against it? And that was every single republican.
BTW generally speaking people who are uninsured do not "walk" into a hospital. As a general rule they are brought through the doors on a stretcher. Otherwise they go to Urgent Care and pay $100 and walk out with a prescription.
Why is anyone other than her paying the bills?
If she is on the public dole, then something is wrong with the public dole. Maybe if she were held responsible for her own hospital bills, she'd stop being a freeloader.
Again, why is this the concern of the Federal Government? Under what provision of the Constitution does it give the Federal Government the power to force people to purchase health insurance?
You already knows that the public pays for Fredericka the freeloader.
It’s not a matter of IF.
It does.
And when she shows up it gets put on YOUR bill as the docs or hospitals or insurance companies’ hidden costs of business.
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