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Donald Trump Reveals Details of His Health Care Plan
NBC News ^
| 03/02/2016
| Ali Vitali
Posted on 03/02/2016 8:46:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump released his health care plan Wednesday evening, finally detailing the way in which he would fulfill his campaign trail promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
In a seven-point plan posted to his website and publicized by a tweet, Trump says he will do away with the individual health insurance mandate, as well as allow competition over states lines for health care plans, and block grant Medicaid to the states, allowing them to follow through on his prescription to "eliminate fraud, waste and abuse to preserve our precious resources."
The decision to go against the idea of an individual mandate is new for Trump, who told CNN during a February town hall before the South Carolina primary that he "likes the mandate" and that makes him "a little bit different" than other conservatives.
But Wednesday's plan outlines as the first point on the list: "Our elected representatives must eliminate the individual mandate. No person should be required to buy insurance unless he or she wants to."
He counters that, however, by saying individuals should be allowed to "fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns."
The third bullet point goes on to say that "we must make sure no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance" and that "we must review basic options for Medicaid and work with states to ensure that those who want healthcare coverage can have it."
Further, Trump ties illegal immigration to his healthcare plan, writing "providing healthcare to illegal immigrants costs us some $11 billion annually ... If we were to simply enforce the current immigration laws and restrict the unbridled granting of visas to this country,
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruzlied; dyingonthestreets; election2016; elections; fraudwasteandabuse; healthcare; mumbojumbo; newyork; trump; trumpcare; trumpwasright; trumpyesterdaytoday
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To: kvanbrunt2
"The great thing about this plan is everyones tax bill, which will be lower, can be filled out on the back of a post card. Just think how many billions of dollars that will save individuals and small business owners in fees to accountants and tax-preparation companies. Thats money saved which can be put to more productive, job-creating things."
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/donald-trump-unveils-his-bold-income-tax-proposal-this-is-a-big-deal/
I have a steel trap mind.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:41:51 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Sacajaweau
Theyve talked about pools before.It is not insurance if you can choose to not buy it until you need it. That is welfare. The only way Donald Trump is going to make sure that pre-existing conditions are covered is to either force everyone into the pool (Obamacare) or provide welfare to people who wait until they need insurance before they buy it.
Frankly the Federal Government has no constitutional authority to do either.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:42:34 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: KittenClaws
The government has no business being in the health insurance business.
I dont care how good the plan is.
***
Except to prevent crime and fraud, I would agree with you.
However, we’ve already kind of passed the point where it’s at all possible—barring complete national collapse—to kick government entirely out, at least not in one go. In my opinion, this is a really big step in the right direction.
103
posted on
03/02/2016 9:42:48 PM PST
by
Luircin
(The difference between lesser evil and greater good is who gets schlonged in the end.)
To: kik5150
Not in a million years. I’d be happier than a clown if Cruz wins. I’ll crawl on my knees over broken glass to vote for the Republican nominee over Clinton or Sanders.
But I’m seeing a lot of Cruz supporters joining the GOPe RINOs in saying they’d vote for Hillary over Trump. That’s sheer lunacy. Voting for a known traitor is treason as far as I’m concerned.
104
posted on
03/02/2016 9:42:55 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: KittenClaws
Not the federal govt at least.
105
posted on
03/02/2016 9:42:57 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Heart-Rest
no American has to die (meaning anywhere - in the street, in their bed, in the train station, etc.) just because they cannot afford any kind of health insurance.
Health insurance is not health care.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:43:06 PM PST
by
kik5150
(Cruz argued 9 times before Supreme Court judges. Trump argues with beauty pageant judges.)
To: Jane Long
Which other candidate, other than Trump, has even ran a business...a worldwide business, at that....and has come in under budget and ahead of schedule? Romney.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:43:16 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: NKP_Vet
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:44:03 PM PST
by
Amntn
("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
To: Mollypitcher1
Been so long since I took a pill I don't even remember what it was. Trump's Make Foreigners Great Again drug plan is about much more than aspirins.
To: KittenClaws
Sheesh. This proposal gets the government OUT!
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:44:43 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: JediJones
I suspect that the pre-existing conditions thing will be kept. Not because it’s a good thing, but because once Obamacare is dumped (Lord willing), pretty much every condition will be pre-existing because we’re starting afresh, and it would be a nightmare trying to get it sorted out otherwise.
But don’t quote me on that; that’s just my personal prediction.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:45:39 PM PST
by
Luircin
(The difference between lesser evil and greater good is who gets schlonged in the end.)
To: PrairieLady2
And furthermore, the state owns your house to pay back medicaid when you die.
_________________________________
Many do not know that the govt. can recapture the payments by taking assets after the death of the Medicaid recipient.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:46:19 PM PST
by
GeaugaRepublican
(Angry not mad. Trump understands the Art of War. "Trump, you magnificent bastard!")
To: KC_for_Freedom
And I think you get to choose the coverage you want again...
To: Repeal The 17th
People don't die in the street. Hospitals, by law, have to help them...usually on the taxpayers dime.
BTW, if people did die in the street, I'm still not responsible. if some do gooder wants to help by donating his money, that's up to him.
I didn't put the person on the street and I should not be forced into charity.
You don't like that? Then YOU pay for the people dying in the streets and leave me out of it.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:46:22 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
To: Jim Robinson
Not in a million years. Id be happier than a clown if Cruz wins. Ill crawl on my knees over broken glass to vote for the Republican nominee over Clinton or Sanders.
But Im seeing a lot of Cruz supporters joining the GOPe RINOs in saying theyd vote for Hillary over Trump. Thats sheer lunacy. Voting for a known traitor is treason as far as Im concerned.
_____________________________________
+1
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:46:25 PM PST
by
Artcore
To: P-Marlowe
TRump: I just want to say, I agree with that 100 percent, except pre-existing conditions, I would absolutely get rid of Obamacare.
The whole purpose of “Obamacare” was to force insurance companies to cover everyone and specifically to cover pre-existing conditions. But that will not work economically unless everyone in the United States is forced onto the insurance roles. So how is Trump going to make sure that people who want to buy insurance after they come down with some prohibitively expensive chronic condition can get it unless he somehow either forces everyone into the pool or gives huge subsidies to Insurance Companies?
Just askin. >>> many solutions one is health insurance becomes insurance. like your car. no oil changes covered. just when you get sick and go to hospital. that is insurance. two not an employee benefit like the socialists made under FDR. you pay for it you carry it and when you get sick they pay for it can’t cancel it. they actuarially handle the risk. number three now you can set up high risk pools. partly subsidized. this country is never going to go back to any rational financial system. when %90 of the population can’t spell it. when the government took over charities to handle these situations, that was the end of our republic.
To: Jim Robinson
Sheesh. This proposal gets the government OUT!Really?
"The third bullet point goes on to say that "we must make sure no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance" and that "we must review basic options for Medicaid and work with states to ensure that those who want healthcare coverage can have it."
Sounds like big government involvement to me.
But that's just me.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:47:24 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: P-Marlowe
Used to be a thing called charity.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:48:09 PM PST
by
kanawa
(....It's the seriousness of the accusation)
To: Fledermaus
Like I asked before, are you deliberately lying or simply just misinformed?
When Trump mentioned a “mandate”
he was not talking about an individual mandate to purchase health insurance,
he was talking about a mandate for insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
This has been posted on FR 100 times and you still don’t believe it.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:48:31 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: pollywog
ARE YOU OFF YOUR MEDS OR SOMETHING?!
You’re looking RIGHT at the plan that says ‘Repeal Obamacare entirely’ and you’re screaming that Trump won’t do it!
NOT TO MENTION MORE THAN FIVE EXCLAMATION MARKS IS THE SIGN OF AN INSANE MIND!!!!!
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:48:49 PM PST
by
Luircin
(The difference between lesser evil and greater good is who gets schlonged in the end.)
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