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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: SeekAndFind
Since he is against the individual mandate, what is his proposal for people who have pre-existing conditions to get insurance?
The mandate was the lynchpin to forcing insurance companies to take people with pre-existing conditions? Are those people going to fall through the cracks?
Just askin.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:04:02 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: blackdog
A minor inconvenience. I’ll take it. Don’t forget, he’s also cutting the income tax. And doing a whole lot of other things to boost the economy and bring back jobs. All boats rise in a rising tide. Most of his plans are Reaganesque.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:04:41 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: KittenClaws
What’s wrong with individuals?
Obamacare seeks to force every one into a one-sized fits all plan.
That’s why Trump has pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:04:42 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: goldstategop
The government should ensure competition, enforce quality standards and protect consumers from fraud.
None of that is constitutionally the governments business.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:04:52 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
To: blackdog
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:05:37 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:05:46 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: goldstategop
Thats why Trump has pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare.
It is the replace I have problems with.
The government has no constitutional authority to be in the healthcare business.
Repeal only.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:06:37 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
To: P-Marlowe
People who can’t afford it can enroll in expanded Medicaid/Medicare.
No one in this country will be left to die in the streets because they’re sick or can’t afford treatment.
Private health insurance can cover healthy people who can and should pay for their health care.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:07:34 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: blackdog
“People on welfare programs for their health care dont have to pay co-pays. Nice, huh?”
And all but the most TRULY helpless should go to the back of the line with priority given for our Vets to flood private sector Healthcare until Gov. (VA) gets there act together. When the unwashed Peasants get pissed, watch how fast the Politicians scream for change and accountability at the VA. Just how pathetic and sad is that.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:07:51 PM PST
by
DAC21
(.z)
To: KittenClaws
Looks to me like he’s getting the government out (for most taxpayers anyway).
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:08:00 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: KittenClaws
—> “If Trump is not for repeal....he is a liberal. Cruz is for repeal.”<—
-
You have not read the plan.
1- Completely repeal Obamacare.
Typical Texan ... too much pride to admit when they are wrong.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:09:09 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: P-Marlowe
From the tenth debate Texas CNN transcript:
RUBIO: The individual mandate. He said he likes the individual mandate portion of it, which I dont believe that should be part of it. That should not remain there. I think heres what we need to replace it with.
We need to repeal Obamacare completely and replace it with a system that puts Americans in charge of their health care money again. If your employer wants to buy health insurance for you, they can continue to do so from any company in America they want to buy it from.
Otherwise, your employers can provide you health care money, tax- free, not treated as income, and you can use that money only for health care, but you can use it to fund health care any way you want, fully fund a health savings account, the combination of a health savings account or a private plan from any company in any state in the country.
And if you dont have that, then you will have a refundable tax credit that provides you health care money to buy your own health care coverage. And that, I think, is a much better approach than Obamacare, which, by the way, isnt just bad for health care, its bad for our economy. It is a health care law that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut peoples hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law. And I will repeal it as president and we will replace it with something substantially better for all Americans.
(APPLAUSE)
BASH: Mr. Trump, Senator Rubio just said that you support the individual mandate. Would you respond?
TRUMP: I just want to say, I agree with that 100 percent, except pre-existing conditions, I would absolutely get rid of Obamacare. Were going to have something much better, but pre-existing conditions, when Im referring to that, and I was referring to that very strongly on the show with Anderson Cooper, I want to keep pre-existing conditions.
I think we need it. I think its a modern age. And I think we have to have it.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:10:49 PM PST
by
Haddit
(Minimalists Al Gore and Al Qaeda)
To: SeekAndFind
The bit about the mandate is a lying canard, btw. At first glance this looks doable. Infinitely better than what we have now.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:11:05 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: KittenClaws
He’s taking the government out.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:11:56 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: Jim Robinson
“. . .and doing a whole lot of other things to boost the economy and bring back jobs. . .”
_____
A whole lot of other things Jim? And since when is it the governments business to create jobs or provide health care?
And Trump is nothing like Reagan, who believed in less government, and was a humble man.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:11:58 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
To: blackdog
>>People on welfare programs for their health care dont have to pay co-pays. Nice, huh?<<
That’s not entirely true. Some states do demand that people with medicaid pay a copay on their meds. I have to also.
Many low income people with medicare still have to pay 20% of their hospital bills along with a monthly premium over $100 per month which is murder on an $900 per month income, or less. And not all meds are covered, either.
It’s not like elderly and disabled can just run right out there and get a job to cover this stuff. Some can, many can’t. And getting hired is yet another hurdle.
And furthermore, the state owns your house to pay back medicaid when you die.
To: KittenClaws
Like it or not, we’re not going to return to status quo ante, which is gone.
We need to reform our health care system so it works with minimal government interference.
The government should make sure market players follow the rules, people know the plan they choose will provide the level of protection they need and that consumers don’t face fraud.
I think that’s as reasonable as it goes. The government should not be in the business of micromanaging health care or trying to run one-seventh of our economy.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:12:17 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: goldstategop
It must vary from state program to state program. I know that in my doctor’s office they don’t have to pay the $25 office co pays or prescription co pays.
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:12:28 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: blackdog
So you want the mortgage deduction done away with, right?
To: goldstategop
3 or 5 dollar co-pays for medicaid is not really a co pay at all...
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