Posted on 02/01/2016 2:41:34 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Donald Trump has never met a dumb health care idea he didn’t like. We learned during the first GOP debate that he has an affinity for Scotland’s incredibly dysfunctional system of socialized medicine. We have subsequently discovered that he would replace Obamacare with “something terrific,†the details of which he still declines to reveal except to say that “the government’s gonna pay for it.†Now Trump has endorsed another bad idea that Democrats — including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Barack Obama — have long advocated despite evidence that it won’t work and could reduce access to crucial medications for millions of seniors.
Trump’s latest brainstorm is to permit Medicare to “negotiate†prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. He claims that this would save us YUGE amounts of money “by getting discounts as the biggest buyer of prescription drugs.†Because he is notoriously lazy about doing his homework, Trump doesn’t understand that Medicare does not negotiate prices. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the leverage of the federal government to dictate prices. This is how CMS gets away with paying health care providers less than cost (and I do mean cost, not charges) for treating Medicare patients.
And, like all government price control schemes, this has created shortages. It is why Medicare patients have long endured a shortage of primary care physicians. Given the authority that Trump advocates, CMS would dictate absurdly low prices, whereupon the drug industry would stop offering medications on which they are thus denied a profit. To protect seniors from the resultant drug shortages, and prevent the stifling effect it would have on innovation, Congress prohibited CMS from engaging in direct negotiation with pharmaceutical companies in 2003, when it expanded the Medicare program to cover prescription medications via Part D.
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When you start your article with a lie, people simply dismiss you latest infantile bile lace screed as more of the same ignorant nonsense
DUDE! You almost got banned for language, the side bar moderator warned you! Selective reading skills, huh?
Do you know why cross-state competition was made illegal? Seems to me it was a monopoly security.
Look how you childishly taunt me, and I shouldn't reply? You're no friend of mine, and you have zero respect for anyone on this forum who doesn't agree with you.
Seems like it did the opposite, and insured a monopoly state by state.
Thanks, but I didn’t write it. Still, you think he’s not embraced all dumb ideas yet, or that he’s not embraced the Scottish model?
Try post number 33! Refresh your selective memory, holy roller!
I’m not taunting you. I’ll leave you alone. Like I said, you kind’ve had a melt down and I think everyone needs to leave you alone for a while.
Well, I'm sure it's just a case of, "great minds think alike".
So much for the vaunted honesty of Ted Cruz's supporters on this forum.
Poor El, his candidate sucks so bad he is reduced to posting infantile snarks and bile laced lies at the other candidates.
Maybe it’ funny, but the Editor of the Spectator endorsed Trump. They’ve allowed diverse opinions to be expressed on the Trump candidacy at The American Spectator. On the other hand, it could very well be a conspiracy.
You think all Cruz supporters are dishonest because they listen to Trump’s words and think they means something?
This is the season for lies. Even people you would expect to be interested in truth wave off efforts to dig into it.
We might or might not get Donald Trump as president, but whoever does get there, the whole thing threatens to be surrounded by packs of lies so thick that you can hardly see what is going on.
It’s all campaign hot air right now.
When I saw Ted Cruz stand with Barack Obama and Goldman Sachs and not us in the U. S. Senate I knew I could never support him again in a primary.
And what about yours, dude! You were out of line, the mod had to warn you, yes?
Oh, don’t worry. I’ll keep quoting Trump.
Well, they're proving it, aren't they? Look at your own mocking posts and the holier than thou behavior you're exhibiting to me that you clearly don't even believe yourself. What kind of weirdo sits there playing a faux-holly roller role like some actor and then whines about being called dishonest?
You`re wasting your time with this guy. He`s a typical holy roller hypocrite.
You?
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