Trump Still Only Has 'Concepts of a Plan' for Health Care
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Dec. 8 2024 2:46PM EST /
Published Dec. 8 2024 10:56AM EST
Donald Trump promised in September he had concepts of a plan to deal with health care. Three months and a successful election later, thats still all he has. Trump told NBCs Kristen Welker on Meet the Press that he had concepts of a plan that would be better than Obamacare, though he offered few specifics on what they would look like. Instead, he tried to take credit for the laws resilience.
We have the biggest health care companies looking at it, Trump said in the interview released Sunday. We have doctors who are always looking. Because Obamacare stinks. Its lousy. There are better answers.
If we come up with a better answer, I would present that answer to Democrats and to everybody else and Id do something about it. But until we have that or until they can approve itbut were not going to go through the big deal. I am the one that saved Obamacare, I will say, he continued.
Trump also spent much of his time attacking Republican lawmakers for killing his attempt to repeal the law in 2017, namechecking the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his role in killing his attempts to repeal the law. When John McCain let us down by voting, and Murkowski and Collins, and whoever it was that voted against, but they really let us down, Trump said.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-still-only-has-concepts-of-a-plan-for-health-care/
dweller
(25,243 posts)INSANE !
I am the one that saved Obamacare, I will say, he continued.
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he would fucking stop calling it Obamacare, it's the ACA!!!! that' why his cult is so screwed up. They didn't realize Obamacare is the ACA.
And he's going to try to dismantle it.
sakabatou
(43,251 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(1,645 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,726 posts)Everyone with two or more functional neurons knows it.
liberalgunwilltravel
(564 posts)dick.
anciano
(1,601 posts)ideal concept of a plan for healthcare turns out to be WebMD and a $50 voucher for a first aid kit. Hmmm... 🤔
OldBaldy1701E
(6,611 posts)Their plan is to let everyone who is not a healthy worker die. That way, they won't be able to be in the way of worker productivity. They will also make sure to give just enough healthcare to the really good workers to convince them that they are special and to keep them voting for the status quo. If someone does not die fast enough, they will just remove any ability to get aid and they will just starve to death. All while those who created the biased system say that all the person had to do was get a job...
Dave Bowman
(3,857 posts)I'm afraid that he only has concepts of a brains.
erronis
(17,176 posts)which, unfortunately, he doesn't know what it means or how to use either.
Too bad Fred didn't pull back out earlier!
dweller
(25,243 posts)Just hasnt fleshed it out
Hurry up and lie ?
Hurry up and sigh ?
Hurry up and cry ?
Hurry up and 🤔
✌🏻
surfered
(3,725 posts)The Affordable Care Act and replace it with reforms that expand choice, freedom, and affordability.
Its taken him eight years just to come up with a concept. Its not possible he was lying to us back in 2016 was he?
BumRushDaShow
(144,196 posts)15 years trying to "repeal and replace" the (full name) - H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(and the final reconciliation/amended version - H.R.4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010)
Dem2theMax
(10,405 posts)Watch for the empty folders. He'll be carrying them everywhere, swearing the entire plan is inside that folder.
Evolve Dammit
(19,056 posts)wolfie001
(3,844 posts)......those mf'ers are stupid POS. Each and every one of 'em. Being led by that fat orange ignoramus racist f6ck. How's that for reaching across the aisle?
Karasu
(368 posts)PRETEND that they do because the know the system is unpopular as fuck.
republican's want haelthcare like it was befoe the ACA. limits on lifetime payouts, pre-existing condituons are enforced and they will probably add limits on appeals.
Karasu
(368 posts)Because we can't just get rid of for-profit health care, don't you know. But aside from that, yes, you are correct. That said, though, they do NOT intend to replace the ACA with anything.
chouchou
(1,425 posts)He blows the crap out-of-his-ass. (and our so-called truthful media.....eats it up.
patphil
(7,111 posts)It's called trump truth; pure, unadulterated Trump style bullshit.
He just reaches around, grabs a big handful and throws it out for everyone to see. His base eagerly embraces it as if was something great.
In actuality, this is the closest to Making America Great Again that Trump can offer...lies, half-truths, and total absurdities. All of this served up with a big helping of malicious intent, and threats to make people who oppose him pay for their transgressions against him.
chouchou
(1,425 posts)You know, it wouldn't bother I/we/us, if when the press talked to him, they wouldn't act like some great scientist
just solved the Quantum Universal dark matter subject and the press also says "Oh ..That's interesting"
republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)nmmi
(203 posts)the AHCA and the BCRA. Problem: they were awful
This Wikipedia articles covers both the AHCA (American Health Care Act) and the BCRA (Better Care Reconciliation Act)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017
H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 5/24/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752
would increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026 relative to current law.
H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 6/26/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
A little bit better: leaving 22 million uninsured in 2026 relative to current law.
This is the one that Senator John McCain famously turned thumbs down on. Otherwise it would have become law.
Start at 2:45
Both can only be described as acts of American Genocide. We need to call the GOP the American Genocide Party.
cstanleytech
(27,176 posts)wryter2000
(47,600 posts)He isnt doing them any favors.
Someone on MSNBC said something intriguing
The Heritage Foundation has a plan to take over the government. What if it turns out Trump cant deliver? What would happen if Heritage kicked him to the curb? Might they do it in favor of Donut Boy?
Wild speculation, but fun to play with.
travelingthrulife
(943 posts)Trump to perform for him. I think THEY will have him tossed out a window or something.
Paper Roses
(7,517 posts)I think the Repubs are hiding him so that no controversial comments are made by him and made public.
trump and Vance are equally as bad.
cstanleytech
(27,176 posts)wryter2000
(47,600 posts)Wait for him to say the Martians are working on a plan for him.
bmichaelh
(643 posts)If his plan is to completely repeal ACA; go back to rules and regulations pre-ACA, then I may not be here much longer.
I am a lymphoma survivor in my third remission; ACA provides me protection against lifetime limits.
I am undergoing maintenance treatments that cost $1million/year.
If those stop, then my lymphoma may return.
It is not just the his 'concepts of plan' that concerns me.
Trump has nominated anti-vaxxers to healthcare positions.
travelingthrulife
(943 posts)Surgeon General.
GoYouPackersGo
(149 posts)It's coming in two weeks.
patphil
(7,111 posts)I agree with you.
Any plan if Trump had a plan would maximize shareholder wealth of insurance companies.
When he tried to repeal ACA the first time, he met with insurance companies but not patient rights groups.
underpants
(187,341 posts)Lonestarblue
(11,982 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,891 posts)industry regulations and public healthcare spending (e.g. medicaid) as possible. WHY would anyone expect repub party to have any other goals or "plans" beyond what its had for the last gazillion years. Who was it who said about 30 yrs ago they wanted to shrink government to the size they can drown in a bathtub. Well the drowning is about to commence!
Henry203
(178 posts)it is the plans before the ACA.
maxsolomon
(35,358 posts)It's an autonomic response. He will never answer a question honestly. He literally can't.
He's the worst person in America, and we're all going to suffer for these coming 4 years for the rest of our lives.
0rganism
(24,752 posts)Could be the perfect real-estate investment for the coming decade -- perhaps the most real of all real-estate.
onetexan
(13,913 posts)All hat & no cattle.
tonekat
(2,051 posts)And way beyond the limitations of trump's feeble mind. He likely can't visualize anything beyond the hamberder he'll have for lunch.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,811 posts)orleans
(35,249 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,056 posts)IronLionZion
(47,117 posts)Initech
(102,511 posts)av8rdave
(10,617 posts)His predecessor did, but trump cant come to terms with the fact that 90% of the population is smarter and more learned than it is.
It would be quite the flight of fancy to believe its done any reading, research or consultation on the topic in the years since.
Evolve Dammit
(19,056 posts)tangible on the positive side. He has chosen the strong man construct and manipulates millions by lying as he breathes.
I have a "concept" of better places for him to reside...
PoliciesRuleTheDay
(5 posts)I thought Obama fixed health care.
Bettie
(17,389 posts)has a plan that kills a whole bunch of us and sickens the rest.
HereForTheParty
(287 posts)How the hell MAGAts can't see that, I don't know.