Trump Claims He No Longer Wants to Repeal Obamacare

[applegrove]

Trump Claims He No Longer Wants to Repeal Obamacare

March 26, 2024 at 4:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/26/trump-claims-he-no-longer-wants-to-repeal-obamacare/

"SNIP..........

Donald Trump said on Truth Social he is not running to terminate the Affordable Care Act but he wants to “make the ACA, or Obamacare as it’s known, much better, stronger and far less expensive.”

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Applegrove:

Liar! You lie!

[cilla4progress]

1. Desperate much?

[Cha]

22. lol and he's Lying.

[Johonny]

2. His policies never have details

Better, stronger blah blah. Great how you doing that Donnie? He has no fucking idea. He's such a lightweight.

[Irish_Dem]

3. He parrots the words of the last person he talked to.

[CrispyQ]

4. First off, we don't believe you, but secondly, we would love for you to improve it!!

Make it better. make it cheaper. We'd love that. We might have done that too except we've been fighting to keep you guys from getting rid of it all together.

Fucking liar.

[Biophilic]

5. Well, he certainly wouldn't lie.

[applegrove]

7. How bout voting or the guy who doesn't lie. No need to wonder.

[Biophilic]

13. I'm confused by your response.

Sorry sometimes I have trouble understanding others. It sounds like you think I was serious about him not lying. Honestly thought it was too obvious, but perhaps I was wrong.

[applegrove]

16. I should have been clearer. I was not referring to what you said in particular.

Something just popped into my head when I was reading yours. The idea that Trump lies and his base must know it at times. And why bother with all that thinking. Trump's a liar. No need to wonder every time he opens his mouth. Vote Biden.

[Biophilic]

18. Thanks for your reply.

I’ve done the same thing.

[applegrove]

21. We're cool.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Further details in two weeks, of course. nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. He'll have it all worked up in 2 week.

[MiniMe]

11. Amazing, he was prez for 4 years and he plan was 2 weeks away for 4 years

[lindysalsagal]

9. Gonna piss of bubbuhs, everywhere in the south.

I hope they take it out on their local gqp reps.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. When Dopey was Prez

My ACA plan was $200/mo

When Biden became Prez

My exact ACA plan went down to $65/mo. due to influx of funding.

He is such an effin lyin sack of goose crap.

[dalton99a]

12. Republicans will do it for him:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/trump-obamacare.html

https://archive.ph/044Cp

Obamacare Is in Grave Danger, Again
March 25, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
By Paul Krugman

...

And what we know is that even though Trump likes to portray himself as a populist, right-wing economic ideology still rules among congressional Republicans, who are as eager as ever to effectively destroy Obamacare. Last week, the Republican Study Committee, which includes a majority of G.O.P. members of the House of Representatives, released a budget proposal that teed up many of the 2017 “reforms” that would have caused millions of Americans to lose health coverage. (It also called for down-the-road cuts in Social Security and Medicare.)

What I found striking about the budget proposal was how its authors deal with the fact that none of the dire predictions right-wingers made about Obamacare have come true. The answer is that they simply pretend that the bad things they predicted, which didn’t happen, did. I was struck, for example, by the assertion that Obamacare “dramatically escalated the unsustainable rise in American health care spending.” Indeed, in 2010, total U.S. health care spending was 17.2 percent of G.D.P. By 2022 that number had risen to … 17.3 percent of G.D.P.

So the reality of Obamacare’s success won’t deter Republicans who want to destroy it. If anything, the law’s success only increases their determination to kill it, because it shows that, contrary to their ideology, government actually can make Americans’ lives better.

And Trump will go along — he’ll egg them on — because making Americans’ lives better isn’t his primary objective.

Ultimately, right-wingers would like to rip up America’s whole safety net. But they’ll probably start with Obamacare; if they sweep this year, I won’t be surprised if the program is effectively gone by 2026.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. TSF will be a liberal by election day

Worked for GWB. He clung to Gore on everything and voter couldn't tell them apart.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Here are (just some of) the times Trump promised an "alternative" health care plan to the Affordable Care Act

Link to tweet

[bmichaelh]

17. Don't trust Trump

Don't trust Trump.

Deep down, he has a pathological hatred of Obama and wants to destroy any Obama legislation.

Biden campaign has a devastating ad called 'Flatline' detailing how Trump wishes to take ACA away.
Trump is probably reacting to that ad.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Call off your dogs and let Congress make ACA stronger

It's simple, you moran.

[republianmushroom]

20. trump lies a lot.

[GoodRaisin]

23. Only when he moves his mouth.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

24. Miserablelyingfucksezwhat???? n/t