The extended shutdown of the Federal government was caused by the Democrats’ efforts to save the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Unless Republicans agree, the price of subsidies for these policies will soar. Many who can’t afford the health insurance are likely to drop their policy and have none at all.
Republicans have wanted to kill Obamacare for years. Not because it doesn’t work, but because it does. They want to eliminate any Democratic successes. Trump hates Obama and always has. First, because Obama was more popular than Trump, and second, because Obama is Black and more popular even now than Trump.
The Substack blog called Wonkette reported that Trump claims to have a plan to replace Obamacare. Or a concept of a plan.
Simple: Eliminate Obamacare and let everyone buy their own insurance.
Too simple: Insurance works by creating large pools of the insured, many of whom will never claim insurance.
Trump’s plan will protect those who can afford to buy insurance and leave behind those who can’t.
Read the column. Apparently Republicans are drafting a bill already.
Beware.
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Remember various years ago, when Dear Leader said he would have much cheaper & much better health coverage than that horrible Obamacare? How does he get away with saying & promising so much BS & his zombie followers never call him out on all of his false promises? Oh, never mind. I think I just answered my own question.
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I doubt if Trump could even manage the preface, but he’s following thoughts straight out of Hitler’s Mein Kampf here in the concept of The Big Lie. That one so large would be accepted by the population as they would not believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. (English approximation).
And there’s that dirty little sub-text ‘they’ would rather not talk about…..Obamacare is associated with one of ‘those people’, whereas Trump is a White Guy who talks like a regular White Guy , so as far as ‘they’ are concerned….Trump must be right?
Roger
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Politicians refuse to face facts about health care. The main problem today is the disparity between what most working people can afford to pay and what health care and other costs associated with health care are. The ACA, while a helpful stopgap, was no long-term solution to the problem. In fact, the ACA was a windfall to the private insurance industry. I can remember the photo of Obama and all the insurance executives that contributed to the formulation of this plan. Universal health care, available in most industrialized nations, disappeared from all the options in the ACA, and it wasn’t an accident.
Likewise, Medicare was designed by politicians back in the day that actually tried to serve the needs of the people, instead of billionaires. Medicare was invented as a socialized program to make senior health care affordable to seniors that cannot fairly compete in the market. It is under attack because it offends the interests of the ultra-rich. Any form of privatization will end up costing more for a worse service, and that is why privatization appeals to the GOP. Corporations are not looking out for the American people. They are looking to exploit them, and they are using politicians to forward their agenda.
Anyone interested in the cost of health care in the US should read this link from KFF. It is full of charts and graphs that depict our predicament. All politicians, not just DJT, need to realize that our current for profit system health care is unsustainable. https://www.kff.org/health-costs/health-policy-101-health-care-costs-and-affordability/?entry=table-of-contents-introduction
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Good summary. Back in the 90s when there were hearings under Clinton, people would ask what I thought. I always answered that there were two problems: extended stay and brief stay.
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Thanks for that link, rt. Comprehensive & user-friendly. Bookmarked it.
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Why is it called “Obamacare” when in reality it actually was/is “Romneycare” as proposed and passed in Massachusetts?
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Both Romneycare and the Nixon-era proposals shared a foundational approach of building a healthcare system on private, employer-sponsored insurance, with a government-sponsored program for the elderly (Medicare) and a program for the poor (a Medicaid-type program).
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Trump doesn’t have a brain that’s human. I’m thinking of the movie VENOM, but Trump’s extraterrestrial parasite is more like both monsters in the Alien franchise, the predator and alien combined.
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Thank goodness (or thank LBJ, even with all his faults and failings) for Medicare. If not for Medicare, I would be in dire financial straits. Instead of paying thousand$ for my 2 cataract surgeries, I paid about $120 out of pocket for transportation, mostly, and the rest was covered by Medicare. I think the co-pay was $70 total for both surgeries.
All the other wealthy industrialized countries have universal health care, everyone’s covered and no one goes bankrupt from medical costs or medical emergencies. The US is still in the stone ages when it comes to medical coverage, save for Medicare and Medicaid which the GOP would love to reduce or decimate.
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Joe J,
The GOP wants to take away your health insurance. Why is it that so many MAGA don’t know this?
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I thought there must be some reason Trump was talking about paying each citizen 2000.
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Has RFK Jr’s. “brain worm” taken up residency there?
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The Repugnicans and Dimocrats long ago voted themselves great healthcare plans. They don’t give a microbe on a hair on a rat’s ass if the people have insurance, or they would have done something real about this a long, long time ago. Sure, the Pugs are worse than the Dims, but they all suck in not a good way.
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