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Trump Promises ‘Insurance for Everybody’
New York Post ^ | January 15, 2017

Posted on 01/15/2017 8:44:43 PM PST by nickcarraway

President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.”

Trump made the comment in an interview with the Washington Post published on Sunday.

The president-elect says: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; didntseethiscoming; itsokbecausetrump; singlepayer; socialism; trumpcare; yaystatism
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To: Hodar
Congress needs to get out of the insurance business.

HELLO!!! We Have A BINGO !

41 posted on 01/15/2017 9:55:22 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: Will88
Trump needs to cut back on his tweeting and pronouncements

Wow, excellent advice. Where were you when Trump was doing the impossible of beating the RNC, DNC and the MSM? Oh that's right, he didn't need you because if he followed your advice we would be saying PEOTUS clintion.
42 posted on 01/15/2017 9:56:56 PM PST by JoSixChip (Cruz <- sleaze; Clinton <- criminal; Trump <- winner)
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To: nickcarraway

i realize that the President is canting his political rhetoric for survival on the enemy’s battleground, and that may be completely necessary to get obamacare repealed, but let’s be crystal clear for our part as speakers of truth to power.

whatever he’s calling “insurance,” for whomever he’s giving “insurance” to, isn’t really insurance unless the insured is paying an honest price for the risk his particular pool bears. and that price is never zero.

and if his trumpcare proposal turns out to be a dog, and it will be called trumpcare by the enemy, i’ll be the first one to call him out on it. you’d better be right on this one Mr. President.


43 posted on 01/15/2017 9:57:07 PM PST by dadfly
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To: cba123

“... The GOP was in charge once ...”
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How do you define “in charge”, and when the GOP was “in charge”?


44 posted on 01/15/2017 9:58:18 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: cba123
Everyone needs coverage. Everyone.

No. Everyone needs a job and the opportunity to obtain insurance in a free market. I'm sick of having to pay for everything that everyone needs. Do you think I go to work because I enjoy going to work? Hell no.

45 posted on 01/15/2017 9:58:31 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: RC one
The previous law worked well enough.

What is this "previous law" you speak of ?

46 posted on 01/15/2017 10:00:00 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: nickcarraway

Unless this law gets the federal government out of health care regulation and monitoring it’s a nonstarter.

The problem with Obamacare was that it put the government in total control of what policies could be written by insurance companies, setup a massive bureaucracy to track the healthcare you received and then demanded the public buy those polices or face criminal penalties.

It’s unconstitutional and needs to be destroyed.

If the new law does nothing more then remove the mandate but still puts government in control of policies and price controls it’s STILL Obamacare and it’s a death knell to and and all liberties in this country!

If they allow insurance policies across state lines and some sort of government pool then that’s ok in my book.


47 posted on 01/15/2017 10:04:50 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Repeal The 17th

Since you either cannot or will not answer, I will answer for you.
The last time “the GOP was in charge” was under George W. Bush,
when the 108th Congress in 2003–2005 had 51 Republicans in the senate;
and when the 109th Congress in 2005–2007 had 55 Republicans in the Senate.
This is prior to Harry Reid evoking the “nuclear option”;
and 60 votes were required to get legislation passed in the senate.

If you want to go back to 1929 and Herbert Hoover...then you might have a point...


48 posted on 01/15/2017 10:30:55 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: nickcarraway

Gotta give Donald credit for trying to square the circle.

I just want to see what he means here. It might be a leaner, cleaner Obamacare but would still be an Obamacare. To really do the issue justice would require treating charity squarely as charity.


49 posted on 01/15/2017 10:33:02 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Skywise

To allow is a lot different than to require.

Requiring is a door to all manner of abuse.


50 posted on 01/15/2017 10:33:59 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RC one

Maybe we do need a better vision of ourselves than as wage slaves.


51 posted on 01/15/2017 10:35:45 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: cba123

Single payer. That’s what you seem to be advocating. Socialized medicine. Nice.


52 posted on 01/15/2017 11:16:49 PM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Theo
Single Payer

A single "insurance" agency run by central-planning masterminds. What could possibly go wrong?

53 posted on 01/15/2017 11:32:46 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: wiseprince

The last thing we need to be doing is spending more government funding on health insurance.


54 posted on 01/15/2017 11:53:29 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Hodar

Agreed. We have been distorting the market through government intervention in crazy ways, then somehow we fall for the argument insurance is a fundamental need and so of course has to be provided by the government.

Yet, we know that more fundamental needs, such as food and shelter, are better provided by the free market than through the government.


55 posted on 01/15/2017 11:56:20 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Theo

Don’t waste your breath or words on Nancy Pelosi She pops in from time to time.


56 posted on 01/16/2017 12:04:07 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Let’s see what he means before we throw up our hands.”

I agree.

This is a complicated logistical and political problem, and must be deftly handled. Put it this way - if the Trump people can’t/won’t come to a satisfactory solution, nobody else would have either.

On top of that Trump has half the country looking to discredit and destroy his every move.


57 posted on 01/16/2017 12:37:33 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: RC one

But the way it worked left a lot of people unable to afford insurance. I cancelled mine in 2010 when it went from $4k/yr to $9K/yr over the course of just 2 years. I have been uninsured ever since. In a country with a median income of $40K, you cannot have health insurance cost $10K for an individual.

Health insurance companies are supposedly just passing along the costs of paying for actual healthcare. If true, then we really need to find cheaper ways to provide healthcare so the insurance is affordable. $10K for an hour in an MRI machine is bizarre, as is $70K/mo for a nursing home, as is $1500 for a fifteen minute ambulance ride and $8K to be monitored for a few hours in an ER. My mother spent the last two weeks of her life in a hospital where they could do nothing for her lung cancer but feed her morphine and charged Medicare $243K.

There is something seriously wrong with the industry. It seems to run on the motto: “How much is your life worth ? Now hand it over whether we can help or not.”


58 posted on 01/16/2017 2:31:57 AM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: BereanBrain
There has to be a reason to work.

Self respect doesn't seem to do it...

59 posted on 01/16/2017 3:10:50 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Hodar
Why is it that my car insurance Inhad in Texas transferred to Utah; but the medical insurance I have in Utah is NOT EVEN AVAILABLE in Texas?

Because your auto insurance company went to the trouble of registering to do business in both Texas and Utah and had established a network of providers in both states. Your heath insurance company did not.

Congress needs to get out of the insurance business. It is not in the constitution, Congress critters are generally very stupid creatures, and they manage to screw up everything they touch. Simply allow insurance companies to compete inter-state like car insurance does.

Congress is out of the insurance business because the Constitution grants the states the power to regulate insurance companies and not the federal government. Insurance companies can compete in different states. All they need to do is meet the state's requirements and establish a network of providers.

60 posted on 01/16/2017 3:49:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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