Posted on 01/18/2017 5:18:07 AM PST by expat_panama
Health Reform: Over the weekend, Donald Trump said he's nearly finished with an ObamaCare replacement plan. Based on the sketchy outline he provided, Trump's vision of health care reform is troubling.
In a phone interview with the Washington Post on Saturday, Trump said the replacement plan is "very much formulated down to the final strokes."
No problem there. Trump has the right political instincts about how to get rid of ObamaCare. Rather than repeal a portion of it through the reconciliation process — as Republican congressional leaders propose — then delay even that until a replacement plan gets hammered out, Trump figures it should all be done at the same time.
Democrats own ObamaCare, he notes, and partially repealing it while diddling around on a replacement will only shift blame for all future ObamaCare failures to Republicans.
But it's when Trump got around to describing his own plan — which no one has seen, apparently — that things got very worrisome.
"We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump told the Post...
...making it hard for Hill Republicans to figure out where to start on a coherent replacement plan once ObamaCare is gone," reports Politico.
It's true that Trump has a tendency to speak out of school, and it's possible that the plan he's ready to unveil will end up appealing to conservatives.
But Republicans are already flailing about with ObamaCare's repeal. By creating confusion with loose talk about what will replace it, Trump is only making the situation worse.
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Price has a plan. Ryan has a plan. Trump has a plan. We're not suffering from a shortage of plans. But as John Madden once said if you have two starting quarterbacks on your team then you don't have a quarterback. If the GOP has three or more plans that have been proposed then they don't have a plan. Settle on one and then we can believe they have a framework to vote on.
AmericaCare ............not Trump, not Joe Blow..............AmericaCare
or AmeriCARE
Trumpcare. If it’s as good as Trump says it’s going to be then you know he’ll want his name on it.
What we got with Obama was ‘Large Insurance Company care’.
What the GOPE wants is ‘Scale tipped-to-Doctors but Cheap Care’
Doctors without borders has doctors that can see 500 patients in a day... a computerized system could manage a thousand with minimum time needed with a doctor. At a tenth the cost.
It’s time for SANE QUALITY HEATH CARE.
What, I’m going to have to start paying “Americacare” taxes now?
Yes. It’s still gov’t care.
That’s what everyone else is calling it.
I put in my opinion on what it should be called.
After all he is in this FOR THE PEOPLE. He didn’t have to do it.
Politics usually works by munging together pieces of different plans. I’m not sure there needs to be a plan anyway versus a number of independent actions that improve the situation. Having a plan sounds a bit like having a solution and there is no solution to the problem of making everyone healthy for a modest amount of money.
The Uniparty, which represents the globalists, not their constituents, and whose cohorts are cheerleaders of the China model, are essentially fascists. So look for them to make good on throwing out everything about obamacare except the mandate.
They actually want to kill off as many people as they can. The only thing that matters is that they maintain the new compulsory commerce/indentured serf aspect that was deemed a tax by traitor roberts.
All the more reason to just repeal it and leave it at that.
“Settle on one and then we can believe they have a framework to vote on.”
That’s how we got obamacare. We need to see and discuss all the ideas.
How about discussing repeal and no replace? Go back to where we were?
This is where things become troubling. On the campaign trail he openly blasted conservatives and what we stand for by name on healthcare saying it was the government’s role to take care of everyone and “get used to it, conservatives! I love you conservatives - get used to it! Let’s take care of everybody please.” You can find those remarks in the video from his Phoenix rally - one of his first after announcing he would run for President. In an interview with Scott Pelley he made similar remarks about expanding government as the solution to healthcare and acknowledged his views were “very unRepublican.” You can look up that interview as well. This is a big reason I did not support him in the primary, but was repeatedly called a “liar” and “GOPe operative” and other choice remarks for pointing this out, even when linking to the videos as proof...it was still “a lie.”
He’s done many good things so far (the best IMHO is his SCOTUS pick) so hopefully his final product - in this case - does not match his campaign rhetoric.
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