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Always remember that Trump was will to gut these important aspects of #Trumpcare--just to save face and get a bill passed today. #Shame!
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Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basic benefits. http://nyti.ms/2mZ07w2
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................After all the negotiations, passage seemed, if anything, farther away. Some rank-and-file members balked at the removal of coverage and benefits their constituents depend on. The president scheduled a late-afternoon meeting at the White House with members of the centrist Tuesday Group.
Were certainly trying to get to yes, said Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Weve made very reasonable requests and were hopeful that those reasonable requests will be listened to and ultimately agreed to.
As Mr. Trump pressed to persuade conservatives to support the measure, the changes he has incorporated have alienated some other Republicans who were already nervous about the bill. Those lawmakers have the potential to cost the bill vital support in the Senate.
Theres a little bit of a balancing act, Mr. Spicer conceded.
But he defended the removal of the so-called essential health benefits regulations, saying it would accomplish Mr. Trumps stated goal of reducing health care costs.
Part of the reason that premiums have spiked out of control is because under Obamacare, there were these mandated services that had to be included, he said.............................
JHan
(10,173 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He doesn't care how many people it kills in the end.
dchill
(38,532 posts)"What do you think - our country's so innocent?" - Donald Trump
"Dead babies can take care of themselves." - Alice Cooper
underpants
(182,877 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)... if they had to live with the kind of insurance they're willing to foist on their constituents.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)on taking away coverage, reinstating ability to use preexisting against you etc
renate
(13,776 posts)... if they had to buy their insurance through the marketplace like the people on the ACA do, they would make damn sure that pre-existing conditions remained covered.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)to get us all killed and I dont think we can do anything about it.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)until they do, they are not doing their jobs
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)how does this qualify as 'health insurance'?
It sounds more like:
'Hey, schmuck, give insurance companies your hard-earned money and you get ABSOLUTEY NOTHING IN RETURN'!!!
Vinca
(50,303 posts)We've always been self-employed and I bet we spent well over $100,000 in premiums and never met the deductible to have a claim paid. When we did need it, they raised the premium so high we couldn't afford it and self-funded for many years. We're lucky we both survived to Medicare.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)Is the only market ever designed by capitalism where the seller makes money by NOT delivering to you, the product you paid for. The ACA corrected that particular spasm of the Invisible Hand, and now the GOP would prefer the Hand go off its meds, so to speak.
NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)Introduce a healthcare bill that offers absolutely zero coverage and costs $50,000 a year in premiums.
There isn't a Republican who could resist voting for it.
coco22
(1,258 posts)Every company that survives because of these patients cease to exist,and they don't have client,patients customers,that grin will be smacked off of this assholes's face,MFKER!