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bmichaelh

(1,084 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 04:39 PM Yesterday

Trump's delusions on healthcare

Trump today said that GOP should "own" healthcare.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-health-abortion-restrictions-hyde-00712507

Trump is delusional. Has his malignant narcissism gotten worse with age?

1. GOP does not believe in universal healthcare.
2. GOP believes that healthcare should be tied to the availability to pay
3. Trump has cancelled cancer research.
4. GOP did not extend ACA subsidies.
5. Trump does not understand the complexities of cancer care.

Item 4 is impacting Americans now; that are in middle of life-saving treatments.

https://www.rawstory.com/health-care-subsidies/

Item 5 is from personal experience.

In 1990, I was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma.
It returned in 2002 and 2019 as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

With my lymphoma, a cardinal rule is that when it returns, it returns at a different location, is more aggressive and prior therapies do not work.

When it returned in 2019 (two years after Trump's failed repeal of ACA), I went through 4 unsuccessful treatments over 2 years; they all failed.
The fifth treatment was successful.
It was able to succeed due to ACA's forbidding lifetime limits and FDA approving the drug the year before.


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