Posted on 04/12/2016 6:55:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. As Obamacare has demonstrated all too clearly, any such declaration from a federal official is indeed cause for alarm. Nearly as scary for conservatives is the word, bipartisan, when uttered by a Republican candidate for office or one of his close advisers. This is why conservatives of all stripes should be unnerved that Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser to Donald Trump, told the New York Times last Friday that any replacement for Obamacare must be bipartisan.
Bipartisan, when used by a GOP candidate, is usually a signal to the Democrats that many of his ostensible principles are negotiable. It is particularly worrisome when deployed by an adviser to Trump, who has been on all sides of the health care debate, depending on the political exigencies of the moment. The Donald has, of course, often lavished praise on the government-run health care systems of countries like Canada and Scotland yet now pledges to replace Obamacare with a bilious admixture of its worst elements and even dumber proposals long advocated by the Democrats.
In other words, because it contains a wide variety of bad Democrat ideas, Trumps plan is already bipartisan. Thus, when we find one of his closest advisers throwing this term around during an interview with the Times, one cant help but wonder what else the Donald will give away in the unlikely event that he wins the presidency. Compounding the queasy feeling induced by that question is the reality that Clovis himself apparently has rather flexible principles. Before he joined the Trump campaign last summer, he was one of the real estate magnates most frequent and vociferous critics.
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Regarding #7, this HAS to mean enforcing anti-trust law against the drug companies. This will drive down the cost of drugs across the board - not just for us private, insurance-paying citizens, but also for those on Medicare and Medicaid (i.e. We the Taxpayers). This one change alone - which could, with a simple Executive Order, eliminate the American public’s subsidization of the world’s pharmaceutical research budget - could save many tens of billions of dollars PER YEAR.
“Funny how most of Trumps ideas were the GOP line until Trump took them up too.”
Of course, where do you think his staffers plucked them from? They had to staunch the bleeding because every time Trump opened his mouth to speak extemporaneously on the subject, he sounded like a Democrat.
Trump has already outlined his plan for getting rid of Obamacare and replacing it with private health insurance.
There isn’t anything scary about it. Its similar to what many other GOP candidates for President have been pushing over the past 8 years.
How about GHW Bush...’no new taxes’?
Right now his policy is what is on his website.
AND, I support it. IT makes the most sense.
Would either of you please give me a link to Cruz’s health care plan on his website. We’ll compare the two.
Trump was touting single payer in the debates!
You have video footage of that...correct?
His website and what he believes and has repeatedly said are two different things.
Only the first half is necessary to establish that Lyin’ Donald Trump is a liar.
show me video footage and the time mark in the video where he says he doesn’t believe his website.
What jobs? Our government has been busy exporting them and destroying them for decades now.
Here’s a better idea: you pay for the poor by getting the government the hell out of the healthcare business, which alone will drive the prices down enough so that the vast majority of people can fully pay their own way and the rest can be handled by charity.
Again, show me the footage.
Also, give me a link to Cruz’s site and his healthcare plan and we’ll compare the two.
Yes, yes everything about Trump is soooo scary it makes liberals and Cruz supporting wussies constantly wet their pants.
Are any of the nevertrump people not imitating stereotypical gay men?
He never said single payer, That’s Cuban Propaganda.
Call me when that happens.
No he did not, that is Globalist propaganda.
I agree with opening up the pharmaceutical market to competition.
However, there is a problem with over-certification of safety concerns, and there is a problem with under-certification of safety concerns.
I’d like to see some eventual solution to that problem.
There are plenty of jobs for those not to lazy to work.
Trumps plan is right on. It is easy to understand except to the ignorant.
Trump for President.
At this point there is not a health care plan out there that isn’t scary. Try going back to a market-based solution and the gibmedats will riot.
Sure, here’s the video of Trump denying things that are written in policy positions on his website, demonstrating that he hasn’t even read them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEg-YDoWkuU
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