Trump says GOP will have 'far better' plan than Obamacare

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News


The president said Wednesday that the Republicans would provide a superior alternative to the Affordable Care Act, one day after his administration called for it be dismantled.

March 27, 2019, 12:39 PM EDT
By Lauren Egan

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will have a policy plan that is “far better."

Obamacare was "far too expensive for the people, not only for the country,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a press event Wednesday morning.

Trump also called President Barack Obama’s signature legislation a “disaster” and something “we can’t live with in this country.”

Trump has not provided details yet about what health care plan would replace the Affordable Care Act.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-gop-will-have-far-better-plan-obamacare-n988021?cid=public-rss_20190327

[kysrsoze]

1. How many times have we heard this from the GOP. In over a decade, absolutely nothing.

[MLT]

10. Still Curious

Why do you suppose some people keep falling for it? You'd think if they were really that dumb, they wouldn't be able to find their way home at night.

[lagomorph777]

26. Evidently voters are no longer falling for it (see 2018 election results).

I hope Turd keeps squeezing. He's killing himself.

[Dave Starsky]

17. This actually started in the mid-90s...

When Hillary Clinton was charged with coming up with a new government-paid healthcare model. Republicans have been griping for more than 20 years, and they have offered nothing in the entire time.

[packman]

2. And the meter reads----

[Perrenial Voter]

3. Must be a lottery system. If you win, you get healthcare, if

not, you die. Unfortunately for the GOP, their base will be the first to go.

[Freethinker65]

4. Prove it. Get in passed in both chambers, funded, and signed into law BEFORE tossing people off ACA

[MLT]

12. Never Happen

It makes too much sense. <sigh>

[yaesu]

5. MSM may love promoting his lies

by I won't read it.

[NastyRiffraff]

6. Trump has not provided details yet

He can't provide details about a plan that doesn't exist, has never existed, and never will exist. The Replace part was always a lie.

[moose65]

21. Yep. And the truth is far worse

Truth is, Trump and the Republicans don't give a shit about health care. They know that they're rich enough to never have to worry about paying their bills, so everyone else should just fuck off and die. I mean really, have they ever proposed one thing that would help average Americans? They only legislation they've passed were the tax cuts for the wealthy. That tells you all you need to know about what they really care about.

[kacekwl]

33. His plan is in the

giant stack of BLANK papers on his desk.

[tanyev]

7. Yep, tax deductible health savings accounts.

That's all they ever come up with. Good luck paying for a heart transplant.

[moose65]

23. Haha

As if people who make $30,000 a year can afford to put money in a health savings account! It reminds me of when Romney was trying to sound like he could relate to the middle class. He said something like "just borrow $20,000 from your parents and start a business." 🙄

[tinrobot]

8. "Trump has not provided details yet..." Why does that not surprise me?

[Guilded Lilly]

9. The Cretin's delusions are worth about as much as a box of hair. n/t

[ginnyinWI]

11. Far worse, he means! Rule of opposites. n/t

[safeinOhio]

13. Show us the plan, and while you are at it,

show us your grades, show us your tax returns and show us the X-rays of your bone spurs.



I didn't think so...

[oldsoftie]

15. Yes, remember when they all demanded to see Obama's college transcripts?

Trump doesnt even want his 4th grade records released

[oldsoftie]

14. Been hearing that for 8 freakin' years. WHERE IS IT??? SHOW US!!

[procon]

16. Republicans have been promising to offer "better" insurance

since ACA was passed in 2010, but in 8 years they've produced nothing. The only thing Trump has done is allow some junk insurance policies to reenter the market and scam people into thinking they are buying good medical coverage.

[deurbano]

18. Ad nauseam, ad infinitum....

[groundloop]

19. I already have a plan that's better than ACA..... Medicare For All

Until we can get 'Medicare For All' Obamacare will have to do - it's a damned huge improvement over what we had.

[lagomorph777]

27. +1 We already know how to administer it.

Phase it in by lowering the eligibility age over time.

[tblue37]

20. If they had an actual replacement plan, we would have seen it by now, since they voted something

like 60 times to repeal the ACA, while endlessly chanting, "Repeal and replace."

[Rollo]

22. He's pissing in the wind...

As long as the Dems control the House, no Trump/GOP joke of a health care system will ever make it out of Congress.

Clearly this is just a 2020 re-election campaign ploy. He will claim he's in favor "great health care" while providing little to no specifics. And everyone should know by now that whatever details he does cough up, he'll likely renege upon once re-elected (if re-elected).

Fool me once...

[Honeycombe8]

24. Yeah yeah yeah. He should just use the tapes from 2016, since he's saying the same thing.nt

[YOHABLO]

25. Even if they had a plan, which they don't, does anyone trust it will help middle class workers?

The liar and con man wants to sell you a shovel. Because that's their plan ... dig your own grave.

[geretogo]

28. This ass hole is the reincarnation of P.T Barnum . " There is a sucker born everyday, " Only Trump

is mentally ill .

[dubyadiprecession]

29. Trump says a lot of things.

[mjvpi]

30. "Jarred......................"

[Snellius]

31. How much S is in this bull.

Free medical care for all for always. Depending on what your state government will be forced to provide.

[area51]

32. This from the guy who asked

why Medicare can't cover everyone.

[Firestorm49]

34. Maybe the Orange Buffoon can tweet the entire new plan - all one page of it.

Money for corporations. Screw the poor. That’s it.

[progree]

35. We've seen two Republican replacement health care plans -- trouble was both were awful

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) introduced in the House and voted down
and the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) introduced in the Senate and voted down.

even though the Republicans were in the majority in both chambers

and I forget how many 10's of millions of people would have lost their health care under each of these bills, according to the CBO estimates.

Exposing the repulsive face of Republican genocide.

[keithbvadu2]

36. The plan is a-l-m-o-s-t ready

The plan is a-l-m-o-s-t ready

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/trump-reportedly-insists-healthcare-replacement-will-have-insurance-for-everybody.html


January 16, 2017 Fox News

President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he’s almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have “insurance for everybody."

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The president-elect insisted that his plan for replacing the Affordable Healthcare Act is all but finished, and added that care would have “lower numbers, much lower deductibles.” He went as far to say that he’s ready to reveal it alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

[progree]

37. "and added that care would have 'lower numbers'"

Yup, much lower number of people with insurance,

just like what the CBO projected if the The American Health Care Act (AHCA) (introduced in the House in 2017 and voted down), or the the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) (introduced in the Senate in 2017 and voted down), had passed.

[Hassler]

38. Death Panels.