Posted on 03/08/2017 10:48:13 PM PST by TBP
The text of Republican health care reform bill to replace Obamacare was released Monday night. Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump offered a full-throated endorsement of the legislation put forward by House Republican leadership.
The bill is “out for review,” President Trump tweeted. Well, the CR review is in, and the bill is terrible. For the last six years, the primary complaints of Republicans against Obamacare were the unconstitutional individual mandate and the insurance regulations that are driving up the cost of premiums.
Neither of those problems are addressed in the RINOcare bill. A Republican version of the individual mandate remains in place to penalize individuals who forgo insurance coverage. The insurance regulations that require insurance companies to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions and the community rating regulation — the requirement that insurance companies charge even the sickest applicants the price of the community — are still there. These regulations are the reason health insurance premiums keep going up every year.
So the structural problems of Obamacare that make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans are enshrined in the “replacement” bill proposed by House Republicans.
Will these problems be addressed? According to the president, there will be a phase two and a phase three of Republican health care reform.
The problem is that the Republican Party promised a full repeal of Obamacare in every election season for the last six years. They won the elections in 2010, 2014, and 2016 running on full repeal. This current bill is not full repeal.
It doesn’t matter what additional changes they make to their replacement plan. If Republicans keep the structural problems of Obamacare in place, as they have done in this draft, they will not make health insurance affordable. Breaking a promise of that magnitude will have far-reaching political consequences that will knock Republicans out of power. Health care will likely be handed back to the Democrat Party and their single-payer socialist schemes.
Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz was clear when he wrote “It’s time for President Trump to lead, or this is over.”
Here is a sports analogy to make this point even more clear. Obamacare is the basketball. The GOP is the team wearing the green jerseys. President Donald Trump needs to be the coach.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/837515519355932673
Right now, in this pivotal moment, President Trump is not being the coach.
Ah, Trump rarely let’s it be known what he’s really thinking.
I’ve learned that the hard way by fretting a dozen times over things that never came to fruition.
I dont worship him. I only worship one being.
But I do think he is a very astute man, and no way does he intend to sign this bill in its current form.
In fact what is smart is that it is “out for review”.
He doesn’t have to destroy it. The right wing media are doing a great job and Rand and Cruz are also, among others.
I think it’s brilliant
It IS garbage...nearly as bad as Obamacare itself. The biggest problem I have is that the ‘RATS now totally own Obamacare 100%; and they own its death spiral and constantly increasing costs.
If Republicans pass this GOPeCare monstrosity & Trump signs it into law then it will become TrumpCare and Trump & the Republicans will 100% own it ALONG WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS. We will have “brilliantly” (sarc) taken the monkey of Obamacare off the backs of the ‘RATS and placed it (now named TrumpCare) firmly onto the backs of Trump and the Republicans. And we will live to regret that.
>>>He doesn’t have to destroy it. The right wing media are doing a great job and Rand and Cruz are also, among others.
I think it’s brilliant<<<<
This is why I didn’t support Trump in the primaries. You think you know he’s really conservative? Because your comment is like you know what Trump is really up to. Trump was pro life not that long ago.
Trump has praised universal healthcare, like what Canada has. Many times in the past, as recently as 2015.
You could be right, but the safe bet imo is to believe what Trump just said, he likes Ryan’s plan.
You make a valid point, and I am not really sure where they even get the notion that Trump likes or even endorses the GOP plan. Saying that is out there for review does not sound like an endorsement no matter how you spin it.
That's just ridiculous on it's face. This will be a classic example of Trump's counselors, advisors, supporters, and conservative consciences "holding his feet to the fire".
I can't believe all the reactionary concern trolling. Even supposed supporters of the President keep making the same mistake of interpreting him hyper-literally in cases when the exact opposite should apply.
This is the very beginning of a long process, one in which there will be many voices speaking and shouting in the President's ear.
I see no indication that President Trump will ignore the voices of those who elected him, and of those who helped shape his winning policy pitches, etc. Knowing how he see himself as well, I can't imagine him being anything but grandiose in his vision of "replacing the disaster known as 0bamacare".
President Trump doesn't think in timid, cautious terms. He thinks BIG, and any 0bamacare solution that he signs as President is going to be something stamped with his vision, something he and his team will have yuge influence over, and thus something that they will be able to claim credit for.
Anyone who thinks that President Trump is going to handle these major policy initiatives with some kind of partial, half-assed solutions is either delusional, not paying attention, or just doesn't know the man's heart.
This President wants to make America great again, not just "adequate" or "tolerable", and every "big picture" policy that gets implemented during his administration is going to be substantial and great, at least in his eyes...
He’s at least as conservative as any of the pretenders who have been pretending to be conservative in order to get our vote for the past 30 years, and he is at most considerably and actually more conservative than any of them or all of them combined and doubled.
Not going to worry about any of this until I see how it plays out.
Yes, Ryan’s bill sucks. I don’t think this is what will become law in the end.
Let’s see what happens.
Donald J Trump @realDonaldTrump
I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!
5:14 PM - 7 Mar 2017
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Seems like Trump cas given himself an out...?
“The bill is out for review, President Trump tweeted”
Doesn’t sound like an endorsement.
Hopefully he’s just using this abomination to see who needs to be replaced in the next election amongst Republicans...
Wouldn’t be the first time TODAY that I was wrong :)
I just looked at Trumps tweet from Mar 7, he called it “our wonderful new bill to replace obamacare”.
I’m not committing one way or the other but the “Hospital Association” is said to oppose this plan.....Obamacare was about forcing people to buy insurance so the hospitals would end up getting paid instead of being saddled with unpaid bills.
The hospitals must be losing out of someone’s money-taxpayers perhaps-so they are whining.
My understanding is that some of things will come rolling out in phase two and three that conservatives will like. The final bill has not been presented to be voted on yet, so I can see them all putting in input and making changes.
Perhaps because he called it, "our beautiful bill", yesterday?
Why? He has always enfitsed single payer healthcare.
Bovine feces.
In a month and a half, Trump has actually ACCOMPLISHED more conservative action than any so-called conservative in the primaries could even dream of.
You don’t like the new bill, fine. I don’t like it either. But your gleeful eagerness to strut around saying that you told us so reflects far more on you than it does on the President.
No, he has not ‘always’ done so.
In the primaries, he endorsed selling insurance across state lines. You know, something that we’ve only been yelling about for a long time.
And in this ‘endorsement’ that you’re talking about, if I remember correctly, Trump said that it might have worked in the past but no longer will work.
Do some research.
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