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I am going to repeal and replace ObamaCare! Read more about my positions on healthcare reform here: https://t.co/WwIVhIud06— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2016

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Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again
TRUMP | 3-2-2016 | Donald J. Trump
Posted on 3/2/2016, 6:55:38 PM by sheikdetailfeather

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3404369/posts

There’s eleven billions in savings right there. I’m ticked because my copays and monthly payments went up which means I’m subsidizing people who are getting it for nothing. Does that make me hard-hearted - hell no.

"He counters that, however, by saying individuals should be allowed to "fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns."

Oh well...........There goes that post card tax return he promised. Back to social engineering via the tax code again. That didn't last long?!

There’s nothing in there about covering pre-existing conditions. Just for the record. I can’t remember if Trump has been clear on his policy on pre-existing conditions. But judging by this, there won’t be any law forcing companies to cover them.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Mr. President.

I can live with it... Trump isn’t trying to shepherd us into Trumpcare.

From my point of view, he has listened.

There’s hope.

The government has no business being in the health insurance business.

I don’t care how good the plan is.

Yet another flip flop that proves Trump has no core. Oh and foreign drugs? Germany is probably one of the leaders in that. Make Germany Great Again.

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.

A great 7 point plan. I was hoping he would come out with this before the debate tomorrow.

Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again - Seven Point Plan All are sound market bases ideas. I especially like the HSA, Health Saving Accounts plan.

The bit about the mandate is a lying canard, btw. At first glance this looks doable. Infinitely better than what we have now.

"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 an alternative democrat plan to ObamaCare. This plan would leave most people alone (I think) but then have the government pay for those who can't afford insurance. More socialism

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 4:00 PM to 11:59 PM EST, 3/2/16:
Donald Trump Reveals Details of His Health Care Plan –NBC
Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again –Donald J. Trump
Dobbs: Time for all Republicans to come together for the sake of the U.S. –Lou Dobbs
Conrad Black predicts Trump presidency: 'You can't stop him'
Free Republic Caucus 2016 03/03
Dickerson: Stopping Donald Trump now is "a long shot" –CBS
Louisiana Presidential Primary Survey Topline Results [Trump 41 Cruz 21 Rubio 15]
Now or never: Trump's 'wall' talk sparks migrant rush on border –Reuters
Trump Backer LePage: Cruz Ineligible to Be President...So Are My Daughters
Mass. GOP Guv Says He Won't Back Trump As Republican 2016 Nom
We Did Not Survive –Lazamataz vanity
Lonsberry: Gop Bosses Spit in the Voters’ Faces
Why would anyone want Mitt Romney’s political advice? –NY Post
Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option –NYT
No Super Tuesday for Colorado’s Trump-hating GOP –Colo. Independent
Newt Gingrich shared Speaker Paul Ryan's live video. 3/2/16 –via FB
Mitt Romney Coordinates Pre-Debate Speech To Set Stage For Thursday Night Ambush –Sundance
After Losses, Marco Rubio Skips the Donald Trump Jokes –NYT
Ryan plans to speak with Trump about GOP agenda –The HIll
Pressuring Trump to follow, Rubio and Cruz release tax returns –CNN
GOP Crowns Ted Cruz Its Anti-Trump at Party's Own Electoral Peril –This Week
Mitt Romney praises Donald Trump [2012] –video
For the Republican party, it's Trumpocalypse Now –Guardian, UK
Dem Strategist: Trump Could Beat Hillary ‘Like a Tied-Up Billy Goat’ –Hot Air
Magellan Mississippi 2016 Primary Survey (Trump 41, Cruz 17, Rubio 16) –RCP
Night of the Trumpster –US Defense Watch
Sean Hannity on Twitter: Little Marco Rubio Now 'Pawn of the GOP Establishment'
Trump dominates with huge turnouts, wide base of support -WaPo
Koch brothers will not deploy funds against Trump during primaries –MSN
Fears of Trump as Fascist Echo Similar Warnings Against Ronald Reagan.
Carl Bernstein: GOPe Wants Paul Ryan In a Brokered Convention –CNN
Neocons declare war on Trump –Politico
Letter to Donald Trump (from a voter) – absolutely outstanding –Scott Adams
Senate Republicans Debate Distancing Themselves from Trump –MSNBC
Trump celebrates with Puerto Rico [on the 99th anniversary of their U.S. citizenship]
Murdoch: GOP 'would be mad' not to unify around Trump if he's nominee
Castellanos: Time to rally around Trump, ‘too late to ask mommy to step in and rewrite rules’ –WaPo
‘Never Trump’ Movement Dealt Setback after Super Tuesday –NYT
Kelly Says She Doesn't Expect Trump Hostility In Debate –AP
Big-money groups band together against Trump in Florida –The Hill
Endgame for Rubio? Team Cruz to make “strong play” for Florida –Hot Air
TRUMP WINS "DISAVOWAL" GAME, THEN SUPER TUESDAY –Ann Coulter
GOP strategists, donors sign on to anti-Trump super PAC –CBS News
Free Republic Straw Poll (March 2016 edition)
Republican Elites Harden Resolve against Trump as Voters Flock to Him –Bloomberg
Ben Carson suspends GOP presidential campaign [Four Left In the Race]
Super Tuesday Results & GOP Analysis –Jeff Head
Poll: Trump holds 10-point lead in Michigan GOP primary

Flip Flop Trump again. He stated just recently he wanted the individual mandate in place. He also sounded like Sanders and Clinton whining about the “insurance companies” that are his straw men.

He is wrong again. It’s the states that wanted to control health insurance in their states and lobbying Congress to get the ability to deny selling across state lines. Sort of like a tariff among states which is unconstitutional.

I’m sure he’ll come out with a different posistion in another week.

But.. there will be people dying in the street, Donald!

The only benefit so far is I was one of the uninsurable, now they have to cover me but I pay $880 per month for it. At least I have it and my medical expenses (pre-existing and high risk pregnancy) were more than my premiums last year.

Mike Lester cartoon
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Why isn’t anyone talking about tort reform?

"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."

This is totally false. The media misinterpreted what Trump was saying when he obviously inadvertently used the wrong word, then immediately corrected himself. He was really talking about making sure that 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. (That is a very Christian attitude to take, as we know that what we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we are also doing that to Jesus Christ, because He specifically told us that.)

Others later falsely tried to label that idea "single-payer" - it is not.

The press is doing the same kind of bold-face lying when they try to claim that Trump did not disavow the KKK/David Duke support. That claim by the mainstream media (and, sadly, some dishonest or woefully misinformed posters on this site) is totally false, and they should all be ashamed for pushing those lies.