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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.Trump endorses House Republican healthcare plan as opposition grows
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PTownsend
Trump needs to keep attention focused on the Republican's healthcare plan that will best serve well to do Republicans. It's another measure to maintain the wealth of those with money, the primary aim after all of the Republican Party. TrumpBannon need all the distractions they can create.
TrumpBannon and Kushner are fully aware that the media are digging into Trump's dealings with shady international figures in Azerbaijan. Will the affair in Azarbaijan, aka the Baku bamboozlement, assuming an independent inquiry is allowed to proceed, show Trump's backroom connections with persons of intrigue from Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran?
If Trump has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, will we now call Pence President Pence?
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/6/14827604/trump-tower-baku
Laguna
Ha - they should wish it were "Obamacare Lite" - as is, it is an illogical mess that would cause great damage to the healthcare system.
And it occurred to me that this may be their main purpose. Ryan knows he can only touch the financial issues of the ACA, while others are protected by Dem filibuster. If the entire system collapsed, though, Dems would be under pressure to at least do something.
Such is the modern GOP: they desire failure.
CrazyJoe
This boils down to whether you think healthcare is a right for all citizens, or every man for himself. If we're going to have national health care, you need to go all the way. Everybody pays for it in taxes (5.25% of earned income in France) and everybody's covered. But Americans have been brainwashed for decades against any kind of health care system like this by propaganda from special interest groups. This new plan is no different - and it is certainly no long-term solution of any kind. I'd like to propose that our lawmakers current health insurance be scrapped and members of the House and Senate be bound to participate in any "replacement" plan that they approve.
paulinusa
According to House Republicans, Obamacare is "awful", "terrible", and their favorite, "devastating". Just more propaganda to hoodwink the gullible and uninformed.
toshiko
This new GOP plan is not much different than Obamacare. Some are rewritten, some changed number portion. Some misctrukesz are goolne or written differently. Essentially, sam e
SuperLib
What's funny is that support for Obamacare is X%. When you call it the ACA, support grows. When you list each individual part of it, it grows even more.
Chalk that up to a good smear campaign from the GOP. Now they are dealing with the mess they created themselves. They promised to roll back Obamacare but they don't want to roll back popular measures that people support but didn't know was part of Obamacare.
Victims of their own bullshit.
Strangerland
Yeah, I can't remember where, but there was some video of some woman going on about how she hated the name, and why did they have to include 'Obama' in the name? The interviewer said something along the lines of 'so maybe they could have called it the Affordable Care Act?' and she agreed.
Clueless Republicans have deceived the clueless.
1glenn
There is no Republican health care plan, but there is an effort to repeal the current health care plan, and go back to the days when tens of millions did not have health care.
It is time to tell the truth, and to stop saying that that the GOP wants to replace the ACA. They only want to destroy it.
SenseNotSoCommon
How many will die as a result of this brainwave?
Thunderbird2
CrazyJoe... I think you hit the nail on the head when you said:
Coming from a country where free healthcare is a right for all citizens it seems both bizarre and cruel that people in America, richest country on the planet, do not have this right. Is it a hangover from the wild west where everyone had to make do as best they could? It just doesn't seem right that people have to pay to see a doctor, pay to have a life-saving operation... As you pointed out, a healthcare system funded by taxation would be free and fair. If the rich want private healthcare let them do that, but everyone else should have the right to free medical care.
lostrune2
Even when the Affordable Care Act was passed, many Democrats said it didn't go far enough
Now it's the Republicans' turn
Serrano
"will we now call Pence President Pence?"
Nah, we're gonna keep callin' him Vice President Pence for the next 4-8 years.
"It just doesn't seem right that people have to pay to see a doctor, pay to have a life-saving operation"
It just doesn't seem right that doctors and surgeons have to perform their services for free.
"a healthcare system funded by taxation would be free "
Except that nothing is free. People have to be paid. Sorry, we don't want the government controlling every aspect of our healthcare.
This may shed some light:
Secretary Tom Price: Health bill is a work in progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdp0Aqg_FOE
SuperLib
Congrats to Serrano. In two threads about the new Republican plan he's the second conservative to comment. You'd think there would be a bit more excitement from those claiming Obamacare would bring about the end of the United States. But it looks like they're tied up right now.
Laguna
Ha. Reminds me of that Tea Party woman screeching, "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare!" Nothing is free - that is true. The ACA redistributed money from wealthy people and companies which benefit from a stable healthcare environment to create such. Trumpcare will result in chaos. Yet people must be paid - that is true. Young, healthy people won't pay now - they don't need to. The poor won't - subsidies insufficient. The ill - those high-risk pools will be miserably insufficient. The well-off will pay - heck, they're getting extra subsidies on top of a tax cut!
Let's be honest: a large portion of GOP representatives resent any government hand in the medical market, and many of their rube followers blindly agree. If this bill passes, they'll find the hand of the free market to be much less gentle.
bass4funk
My ONLY quibble with the GOP is, I think it stinks, I am and never was a fan of Obamacare the costs but this stinks and not much has really changed and for every policy that's out there, the GOP had 8 years to come up with a better proposal and new legislation on this and they come up with this mess? What an embarrassment! No wonder the congress has a 14% approval.
HonestDictator
Reality of partisan politicking sucks doesn't it? For profit healthcare isn't healthcare... its for PROFIT. Nationalize it, or we're going to keep running around in circles.
toshiko
Trouble is some republicans are opposing namingthe it as Obamacare LT. Trump was hurry.