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My Thoughts on Key Issues
October 17, 2020 | Brian Griffin

Posted on 10/17/2020 6:21:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin

Health Care Coverage Availability

Already insured PPACA Marketplace insureds can contractually lock in coverage for 2021 starting November 1. Trump could and should open up the Marketplace early. Federal law still in effect dating from before the PPACA ensures coverage for pre-existing conditions of people who have choosen and paid to remain covered.

Insurance through employers has already been designed and mostly contractually arranged for 2021 coverage.

Health Care Coverage Scope

Makers of expensive drugs wishing to have happy shareholders will always need to have the maximum practical number of insurance plans contracted to pay for them. Any future change will simply give insurers more bargaining power and the ability to offer lower premiums.

Coverage Caps

I believe that to allow one patient to burn through $2 million instead of $1 million in coverage and have 200 families stuck with unpayable $5000 deductibles is absurd.

As a person without health care cost coverage for 27 years, I believe that patients likely to burn through that $1 million of coverage need to shop around for providers who will provide all necessary care in exchange for access to their $1 million of coverage so 200 times as many patients won't be stuck with $5000 bronze deductibles.

A knee replacement operation costs about $25000 in Britain. Our greed-filled medical system needs to become cost-efficient.

Biden's Bribes

Joe apparently has the belief that trillions in stock holdings can be converted to trillions of federal funds.

The middle class simply lacks enough funds and enough desire to buy the pricey common shares of the rich.

Europeans and Chinese simply want to replace American firms with their own, on the cheap, by forced technology transfers and unendurable regulations.

There simply isn't enough market demand worldwide for the common stock shares of the American rich to fund Biden's bountiful bribes.

Also, the rich could easily outlast eight years of Biden/Harris tax dreams by borrowing on their shares at the same .5% annual interest banks pay CD depositors.

Most rich people might consider their existing mansions and yachts sufficient for eight years of a Biden/Harris administration, deeply cutting the incomes of real estate professionals and highly skilled artisans for what could be eight years straight.

Carbon Taxes

Trump surely understands that a tax levied on a company or its products, such as gasoline to power your car and natural gas to heat your home, gets paid eventually by its customers, such as yourself. Does Joe Biden?

Solar Power

People should understand that a solar cell works better in sunny Somalia than in commonly cloudy Cleveland.

Trump will not squander your hard earned utility payment dollars to keep Third World countries from advancing.

Petroleum Industry

Oil production often takes place in areas that have very few other good jobs readily available, such as western Texas, northwestern Pennsylvania and southeastern Ohio.

Does Joe Biden really propose leaving Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Indonesia, Iran and Arab countries without oil revenue to fund their schools and health care systems?

Biden apparently doesn't care about the oil-related revenues of the great states of Pennsylvania, Texas and Louisiana and of Oklahoman and Alaskan Native Americans.

Does Joe Biden understand the importance and source of petrochemicals?

Corporate Tax Increases

Reversing a Trump tax cut that sent the stock market from 17000 to 26000 is quite likely to send it from 26000 to 17000.

We don't need a 1929-1932 style stock market meltdown.

Tax Increases on Doctors

Doctors making over $400,000 who will be forced to pay higher taxes under Biden will generally raise their fees to fully compensate, causing already expensive health insurance premiums to rise.

Covid Containment

The vast majority of American voters know President Trump doesn't have a medical license or a Masters degree in Public Health.

If Covid deaths were truly the fault of Trump's words or actions, there would be few deaths in big cities filled with Trump-despising Democrats.

Trump is certainly not responsible for half the hospital beds of Paris being occupied by Covid patients.

The Trump administration tried to secure nursing homes early. This clever move was undermined by some Democratic governors.

President Trump is relying on federal experts and our world leading medical industrial complex to make vaccines and health care technology available.

Joe Biden apparently doesn't realize that Covid test kits are made in factories and not in the White House basement.

The vast majority of public health experts are employed under state governmental power. I believe that Trump understands the need to let these specially educated state and local level experts do their work carefully tailored to state and local conditions and knowledge without federal meddling.

Biden badly needs to understand his limitations and those of the federal Constitution.

Covid Unemployment

Most Covid related unemployment is due to lockdowns ordered under state governmental power and media-manipulated customers unwilling to patronize what leading Democratic governors have labeled as "non-essential businesses".

Guns

A Democratic politician willing to trample on one constitutional right might not hesitate to trample on two.

Crime

NYC's Republican mayor, his police chief and their men and women in blue did the hard work in reducing crime in that city and successfully inspired others nationwide.

China

Will Joe Biden, the father of a man managing Chinese billions, really fight China and "bite the hand" that massively enriches his son?

Immigration

How many million more American citizens will have to be economically displaced by excessive immigration before Biden acts to secure our country?

Does Biden support insisting that immigrants pay their own way?

Does Biden understand that providing a K-12 education to an immigrant child can cost state and local government taxpayers $150,000 to $300,000 each?

Barking at Every Republican Action

We don't want a dogmatic President who mimics a dog too much in love with his own bark.

Mental Deterioration

We don't want as President a very easily enraged old man who clearly shows substantial age-related mental deterioration since 2012.

Social Security

Does Biden remember that Obama actually signed into law a two-year Social Security tax cut?

Supreme Court Packing

Why won't Biden promise not to "pack" the Supreme Court?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: biden; covid; oil; ppaca

1 posted on 10/17/2020 6:21:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
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2 posted on 10/17/2020 6:54:22 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Brian Griffin
We have the greatest healthcare on the planet ... it is the cost to the consumer that has been out of reach, thus insurance.

I am SO looking forward to President Trump's second term.

3 posted on 10/17/2020 7:13:33 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true.... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Sounds like many of the issues are demonkkkrap issues for example healthcare (making obozocare better instead of demonkkkraps pledge in primaries to socialize medicine via Medicare for all); Climate Change (yawwwwwnnnnnn... other than univer$ity type$ and their newly minted millenial graduates, and stoopid suburban women, this is not on the average person’s list of urgent issues); average people are other than ). I wouldn’t spend too much time on these.

You should have listed the riots in demonkkkrap cities, its connection to people not being able to depend on demonkkkraps who refuse to enforce the laws and actually want to “defund” police until they need a police force to take away our guns. This lawlessness has hurt the people, the poor and working class, who live in cities and have no means to get up and move away.

Illegal immigration, by itself and tied to China virus. The kkkraps used to say to be anti-illegal immigration guaranteeed a loss. Why they aren’t talking about it tells me why this should be front and center.

Biden, Biden and Harris. There’s too much here to exploit for political purposes. While you-ain’t-black Biden, and Biden saying latino’s are a very diverse group compared blacks should be broadcast 24/7 in inner cities, as well as a bunch of their radical leftist positions, the average person will be more open to hearing and seeing examples of these two “clowns” (to borrow a word in Biden’s vocabulary), one very corrupt, not able to be straight with the American people ... who can trust them?


4 posted on 10/17/2020 7:18:31 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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