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.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The Spectator starts out with a lie in its first paragraph and then expects its readers to keep on from there. Pretty sure I just saw a damn interview with Trump where he specifically rejected single payer and explained his position, but these schmucks are still claiming that Trump supports single payer? Screw the Spectator and these constant anti-Trump propaganda threads.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
We've discussed the context of these quotes long before in MANY threads, but for some odd reason you think a heavily edited campaign video is supposed to be the definitive answer?
Shut up and grow up!
Another nail trump piece. They will be all over to convince his Iowa supporters to not back him and go for the new flavor of the week-—Marco Rubio.
http://spectator.org/articles/65335/grow
Of course they won't, since that's the point of a campaign commercial. People who are not filthy liars like unto you would read the entire transcript of the conversation and thus conclude differently.
TAS - The American Spectator; I guess if this is a common abbreviation, that is one thing. I thought of something else but I usually always enjoy the articles the Poster posts.
"Where Mussolini was hard to pin down in the political spectrum between the socialist newspaper editor and right-wing dictator, Trump has embraced universal healthcare for all, then said that it’s too expensive, then said that he was in favour of comprehensive health insurance for every American."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12132320/Donald-Trump-is-the-Mussolini-of-America-with-double-the-vulgarity.html
I am one of the few who can literally read Trump's next few sentences where he straight out says "for the most part people will be on private plans." So who are the people the "government" will pay for? The same people already targeted under medicaid, moron. In fact, in that same interview, he says it TWICE about how he plans to expand the market in each state for private plans.
You are a liar. Why do I call you that? Because THIS HAS BEEN DEBATED IN PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF THREADS AT THIS POINT, AND YET YOU WILL DENY TRUMP'S OWN WORDS.
You’re wrong. You’re wrong headed. But you’re a perfect Trump man.
It's called problem-solving. That's what Trump does best.
No, no, no. It’s Donald Trump, therefore it’s brilliant. GENIUS, even.
And everybody and everything else is a dummy loser. Or something.
Is that out of context too?
I’ve noticed that. Everyone is stupid if they don’t agree with Trump. Trump is the Messiah. And everyone who quotes him showing him in his own words is dishonest.
Scumbag?
My my, how the “Christian “ trump has rubbed off on his “Christian” cult followers.
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