Posted on 01/15/2017 5:52:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obamas signature health-care law with the goal of insurance for everybody, while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump declined to reveal specifics in the telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post, but any proposals from the incoming president would almost certainly dominate the Republican effort to overhaul federal health policy as he prepares to work with his partys congressional majorities.
Trumps plan is likely to face questions from the right, following years of GOP opposition to further expansion of government involvement in the health-care system, and from those on the left, who see his ideas as disruptive to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act that have extended coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
In addition to his replacement plan for the ACA, also known as Obamacare, Trump said he will target pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and demand that they negotiate directly with Medicaid and Medicare.
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You are hearkening back to Robber Baron mentality.
A true conservative position is a reasonably regulated capitalism, not a laissez-faire system wildly tilted in favor of the richest and the most unethical.
Sorry. It is your laizzefaire approach that breeds over regulation and gives is not true consevatism.Think the Donald knows better than to promote your so called free market.
We have always been at war with EastAsia.
Ding ding ding.....round two of bull shiite session from two _residents in a row.
I heard Trump say this, but now that the WashingFake Post has reported it, my experience is in doubt.
Populist. Some parts will be liberal, some conservative — but all of them anti-globalist.
I’m waiting for the first Republican to say, “If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance.”
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