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To: JediJones; Jim Robinson

I am sick of your scummy lies. Is Ted Cruz campaigning on getting rid of Medicaid? Because if he is, he damn well better announce it soon. If he isn’t, stop holding other candidates to a standard that yours won’t ever even come close to living up to.

THIS IS TRUMP’S HEALTH CARE PLAN:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform

It is a ground-breaking reform plan that actually could solve not just the problems introduced by Obamacare, but the problems that have been going on in health care/health insurance for the past 30 years.

There are ideas in that plan that have never been put forth by any other candidate and will move this nation sharply toward a true free market in heath care.

No more lies from you. Everyone is sick of it. And while you’re at it, how about giving us Ted’s health care plan. Oh, he doesn’t have one? We don’t need a ‘plan’, because his supposed ideology will solve everything? Bull feathers. Enough of your lies and excuses.


349 posted on 03/16/2016 5:44:26 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

item 7 from trump’s healthcare plan:

“Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America. Though the pharmaceutical industry is in the private sector, drug companies provide a public service. Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers”

So free markets and foreign imports are fine when it comes to drugs, but not other goods. If free trade stimulates competition and lower prices in the pharmaceutical market, why doesn’t the same logic apply to other markets?

If “Chyna” has unfair advantages that afford them the opportunity to sell goods to the US at lower prices, why does Trump not hold that same belief for countries that sell drugs at lower prices? Could it be that those countries have set arbitrary price controls on their drug companies?

I find the statement that “drug companies provide a public service” sounds suspiciously close to approaching a slippery slope where government bureaucrats determine that certain goods should be available at a “fair” price.

A good businessman responds to economic incentives, for which Trump has at times been unfairly attacked. That doesn’t mean that he has a good understanding of economic principles or that he will implement policies based on sound economics.

https://www.aei.org/publication/donald-trump-flunks-econ-101-when-it-comes-to-international-trade-assignment-watch-a-1978-milton-friedman-video/


427 posted on 03/16/2016 9:53:30 PM PDT by MyDogAteMyBallot
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