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TomCADem

(17,382 posts)
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 05:31 PM Aug 2020

Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation's health-care system that never arrives

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Source: MSN

“We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health-care plan,” Trump pledged in a July 19 interview with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.

Now, with the two weeks expiring Sunday, there is no evidence that the administration has designed a replacement for the 2010 health-care law. Instead, there is a sense of familiarity.

Repeatedly and starting before he took office, Trump has vowed that he is on the cusp of delivering a full-fledged plan to reshape the health-care system along conservative lines and replace the central domestic achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency. No total revamp has ever emerged.

Trump’s latest promise comes amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which has infected millions, caused more than 150,000 deaths and cost Americans their work and the health benefits that often come with jobs. His vow comes three months before the presidential election and at a time when Trump’s Republican allies in Congress may least want to revisit an issue that was a political loser for the party in the 2018 midterm elections.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-keeps-promising-an-overhaul-of-the-nations-health-care-system-that-never-arrives/ar-BB17tm9S?li=BBnb7Kz



I am expecting some executive order promising free health care premiums for folks in red states in rural areas for a year.
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Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation's health-care system that never arrives (Original Post) TomCADem Aug 2020 OP
Good! He could fuck up a wet dream. rickyhall Aug 2020 #1
He is focusing on "Infrastructure week", give the guy a break. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #2
They certainly presented replacement plans - the AHCA and the BCRA in 2017. Problem: they were awful progree Aug 2020 #3
Locking applegrove Aug 2020 #4

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
1. Good! He could fuck up a wet dream.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 06:23 PM
Aug 2020

BigmanPigman

(51,571 posts)
2. He is focusing on "Infrastructure week", give the guy a break.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 06:44 PM
Aug 2020

progree

(10,895 posts)
3. They certainly presented replacement plans - the AHCA and the BCRA in 2017. Problem: they were awful
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 07:45 PM
Aug 2020

This Wikipedia articles covers both the AHCA (American Health Care Act) and the BCRA (Better Care Reconciliation Act)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017

H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 5/24/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752
would increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026 relative to current law.

H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 6/26/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
A little bit better: leaving 22 million uninsured in 2026 relative to current law.

Both can only be described as acts of American Genocide. We need to call the GOP the American Genocide Party.

It passed the then-Republican-controlled House, but failed by 1 vote in the Senate.

applegrove

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Sun Aug 2, 2020, 09:13 PM
Aug 2020

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