Posted on 02/01/2016 2:41:34 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Donald Trump has never met a dumb health care idea he didnât like. We learned during the first GOP debate that he has an affinity for Scotlandâs incredibly dysfunctional system of socialized medicine. We have subsequently discovered that he would replace Obamacare with âsomething terrific,â the details of which he still declines to reveal except to say that âthe governmentâs gonna pay for it.â Now Trump has endorsed another bad idea that Democrats â including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Barack Obama â have long advocated despite evidence that it wonât work and could reduce access to crucial medications for millions of seniors.
Trumpâs latest brainstorm is to permit Medicare to ânegotiateâ prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. He claims that this would save us YUGE amounts of money âby getting discounts as the biggest buyer of prescription drugs.â Because he is notoriously lazy about doing his homework, Trump doesnât 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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But of course Jesus did say 'Thou shalt defame, slander, and curse up a storm.', but where was that, PentHouse 1:13?
But oh course you`re not one of those hypocrites, are you? So what is your religion, Church of the foul mouthed slobs? Actions say a lot!
Okay, then unrelated to the article can you explain Trump’s position on health care?
“As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you’re talking about here.” -DJT
He likes single payer in Canada and Scotland, and says it could have worked here at a different time. Which is idiotic, because the problems with single payer (wait times, doctor shortages, rationing, decreased innovation) are inherent in the system and thus universal, not specific to the U.S., and certainly not specific to the U.S. right now.
So, Trump either has a total lack of understanding of the health care issue (which would explain his praise of single payer in Canada and Scotland), or he is just pandering when he says he doesn’t want it here.
HEY! you didn`t get banned, just rebuked. So how`s that religion doing for you?
Luk_11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Leave it to the local Tediban to get all "you can't speak mean to us, even though we have no respect for anyone else!"
Hey, don’t push him. He’s under a lot of pressure trying to deny the contradictions and vague information. In post #19, GPH kind of came unglued. I think the best we can do is hope he better soon and restored to a more congenial view of his fellow man.
The Donald's left leaning political acumen starts as a trickle. Everyone ready for the flood?
Shame on you for calling Trump a putanista in the same breath you accuse the poster of being vile in his discourse.
Muy malo.
BTW. IMO revealing you read Johnson for a historian explains your faux conservatism and logic tight compartments.
I think you misunderstood the Putinista remark. GPH and I share a strong aversion to Putin.
Yes, Elhombrelibre knows I’ve fought long and hard on this forum against Putin and for the heroes of Ukraine, taking the same kind of abuse from Pro-Putin folk I now get from him. He has no respect for me or for anyone else, sadly, and doesn’t seem to comprehend how a person can still disagree with another and yet like them!
Discussions here are very informative, but I still like to hear from the source. So I went to DT’s website and medical care is not in the list...
so here is the link to the debate. The only thing I got from it is that he wants to open state borders to all insurance companies. Does that mean that states won’t be able to control their own types of insurance? I never really understand that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFRjExsfTk
Trump said he is against single payer but he wants everyone to have healthcare and the government to pay for it.
How would you define that? It’s certainly not a free market system.
That’s like saying...
um.. I am against socialism... but want the government to control the means of production.
Opening those borders allows cross-state competition. It would also be nice to be able to import medicines from other countries, so that they can stop billing us for 10 times the amount for a medicine that you can get even in Europe for a lot cheaper.
But I guess that means you are one of them?
I have no idea what you’re going on about.
GPH, you're painting with too broad of a brush and clearly not making sense. You lost your cool a few times on the threat and had a fit. Again, try to relax.
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.
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If their reference is wrong point out the correct reference, IMO you are lying to cover for your crony capitalist hero.
Trump likes the socialized single payer system Scotland has. Bernie Sanders wants the same sort of system. Or is what he said in the first debate no longer relevant.
He’s probably talking about when you started calling other posters “liars” and “scumbags.”
Yeah, he did just verify his hypocrite holy roller status, complete with scriptural reference!
If you don’t like Trumps healthcare positions, check back tomorrow to see you like those positions on healthcare.
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