OK, before I got banned, I was saying all along that Trump wasn’t a genuine conservative but was just playing one for TV. That said, I voted for him and I think he’s been doing a fine job, although I wish he’d be a bit more aggressive in some areas. No president ever has had this much open opposition from the press and the former occupant of the WH, and he’s got to fight back.
As for health care, people speak as if we could magically go back to a time before Obamacare. The problem is...we can’t. That entire structure was destroyed, and there’s no way to rebuild it overnight.
I’m in favor of renegotiating the bill so there’d be more specifics, but the fantasy that just repealing Obamacare is going to bring on paradise is insane. The infrastructure has to be put into place.
Trump has already repealed the individual mandate and opened the market, but the problem is that the market will take awhile to rebuild. ANd of course, nobody even knows that he repealed it because it was reported only sketchily since the press didn’t want anybody to know.
There needs to be support. There could be a lot of support from \ appealing to people who pay high dollar for plans - including Medicare plans - that have had to cut back their coverage, for example, or people whose employers have forced them to take a reduction in benefits because of Obamacare.
My feeling is that more PR work needs to be done, and that the FC has got to stop saying no from the get-go. Having a non-negotiable demand (and in fact, Trump said that they had moved the goalposts after he talked to them, so that means it’s all about them) goes nowhere in furthering your objective.
And his own Party...And no President has gotten so much accomplished in such a short amount of time...