Trump urges speed on uninsuring millions
Trump is urging Republicans to HURRY UP and repeal the ACA, so that 20 million people can be stripped of their health insurance RIGHT AWAY.
The rich dude who has never had to worry about health insurance for a day in his life is in a big hurry to take it away from people who don’t have much money, because he’s just that kind of guy.
The rich dude who cut off benefits from the family health plan that were paying for the medical care of his nephew’s seriously ill little boy can’t wait to throw 20 million people off health insurance.
The rich scumbag is a rich scumbag, and he’s ten days from being president of the US.
Republicans in Congress are nowhere close to agreement on a major health bill that would replace President Obama’s signature domestic achievement.
Of course they’re not, and they never will be, because there’s no way to “replace” it without just doing the same thing all over again. They’re obviously not going to replace it with universal coverage via single payer, so what’s left is mandatory insurance for all plus subsidies, or nothing. Nothing is what we had before, and it’s all the Republicans are ever going to come up with. They are ideologically opposed to the very idea of universal health insurance paid for via progressive taxation. The alternative is no health insurance for the poor. There’s not some big unexplored country in between where people with low incomes get health insurance by MAGIC.
Mr. Trump issued a political warning to Democrats who might stand in his way, saying he would campaign against lawmakers, especially in states that he won in November.
“It may not get approved the first time, and it may not get approved the second time, but the Democrats who will try not to approve it” will be at risk, warning that “they have 10 people coming up” for re-election in 2018. That alluded to Democratic senators in states he won.
“I won some of those states by numbers that nobody has seen. I will be out there campaigning,” he said.
In 2000, during a family dispute about the details of his father’s will, Trump, who was by then fabulously wealthy in his own right, cut off benefits from the family health plan that were paying for the medical care of his nephew’s seriously ill young son.
That’s what he is.
The republicans won’t be able to come up with a plan because their brains are operating on the overarching program demand that as far as the public is concerned, “you are on your own”. Doing something for the citizens is outside of the scope of their belief system.
Quite. As Joe Biden said in an interview on PBS Newshour last week, the issue is that Republicans programmatically don’t see health care as a right, they see it as a privilege.
I saw on Ed Brayton’s blog that at least three Republicans, including ‘lyin’ Ryan’, are saying that they won’t vote to repeal the ACA until the bill includes a replacement insurance scheme, which denies Trump the majority vote required to pass it.
There may be trouble ahead……
I am…omg…most Republican people at least take care of their own family. Has anyone checked Trump’s long form birth certificate? To make sure he’s actually human?
Just wait for when Donny needs full home care for his own “issues”; guess who will pay then?
At some point I figure his presidency is going to implode. Trump is just in it for himself and there’s only so much humiliation and abuse one can take from the likes of him. And there will be humiliation and abuse inside his circle; it’s how he operates. Does Trump as president get to foist NDAs on his staff and advisors? How long before some one on the inside bolts and spills the beans? Not that there are likely to be any surprises (how much lower can he sink? DON’T ANWSER THAT!), but it would still mar his “I’m so great, everybody who’s anybody loves me” story.
Meanwhile welcome to America:
https://twitter.com/TheSmarmyBum/status/818531731938496512/
The part about him campaigning against Dem senators up for re-election 2018 is rich…
A significant number of people are busy right now making it clear that if they don’t block him and the reds* on this that they won’t be getting re-elected. I don’t think there’s a scenario where supporting repeal (as a Democrat) is a viable strategy for retaining your seat in Congress.