Trump spokesman says Obamacare replacement will harness marketplace competition

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A spokesman for Donald Trump sought Monday to elaborate on the president-elect’s plans to replace the Affordable Care Act, vowing that the new administration would lower health-care costs by infusing more competition into the marketplace.

Trump’s goal is “to get insurance for everybody through marketplace solutions, through bringing costs down, through negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, allowing competition over state lines," Sean Spicer, the incoming White House press secretary, said during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.

Spicer’s comments followed a weekend interview with The Washington Post in which Trump said that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama’s signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also promising to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump declined to provide specifics during the weekend interview and Spicer offered few details either. But he reiterated the principles driving Trump’s plan, which the president-elect said this weekend is “down to the final strokes.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/16/trump-spokesman-says-obamacare-replacement-will-harness-marketplace-competition/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na&utm_term=.3f1738b25358#comments

Yes his goal is to get insurance for everyone not require insurance for everyone. Always listen for the semantics.

[Wounded Bear]

1. In other words, we'll go back to what it was...

on steroids.

[maryellen99]

4. Yep those cheap junk plans that don't cover anything nt

[yardwork]

12. But people will be fooled until they get sick.

[louis-t]

2. In other, other words, price will go up.

A lot. Signed, Donnie dum dum, deal maker.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Here comes the invisible hand again

and there goes your money.

FREEDOM!

[dalton99a]

5. Water and air would cost two weeks' pay if left to "marketplace solutions"

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. There is no such thing as a marketplace

For healthcare. How would it ever be possible to shop around for critical care?

This is madness. This is a cynical non solution to the most serious problem that society faces. What leverage do does anyone including the federal government run by republicans have to do anything at all about the cost of healthcare in this open market?

[librechik]

7. Just put Shkreli in charge and get it over with. That's how Trump will control costs.

[lunatica]

8. the joys of privatized health care will finally be ours!!

[Trust Buster]

9. It never harnessed marketplace competition before the ACA. Smoke and mirrors.

[moondust]

10. Stupid.

Health care is not a widget. MRIs are not widgets. Not even slightly realistic to think "customers" will increase competition and control prices by shopping around for best prices on emergency procedures or long-term treatments that may develop complications after the treatment has started. Even if they could, would anybody really want their health care providers to start cutting corners to save money so they can lower their prices and/or increase profits?

If Tom Price is on board with this nonsense then perhaps he is actually more a medical profiteer than a doctor.

[Glitterati]

11. Of course Tom Price is

Tom Price is and always was a concierge doctor to the rich in his well to do North Fulton congressional district.

He was/is an orthopedic doctor treating sports injuries and hasn't practiced medicine in years and years.

[yardwork]

13. Price is a quack who resented government interference in his quackery.

[Ilsa]

14. Yeah, for a few years prices will go down until the insurance

Companies buy each other up, or collude on increasing prices and denying benefits.In the meantime, regulation will all but disappear. "Let the buyer beware" will be the new way of doing business with them. It is doomed to waste and failure.

[Johonny]

15. Repeate after me, ACA IS the marketplace solution to healthcare.

Without ACA the marketplace solution can't, doesn't, won't work so anything he attempts will be a failure.