NYT - Trump Makes the American Health Care System Even Worse

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/opinion/sunday/china-united-states-health.html


President Trump’s policies have left children without health insurance and his budget proposals would leave the country more vulnerable to a pandemic.

President Trump praises a “strong, sharp and powerfully focused” Chinese President Xi Jinping for his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. “President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation,” Trump said.

This offended some Americans. At a time when many Chinese are criticizing Xi for initially covering up the outbreak, should America’s president really side with a dictator who punished doctors rather than listening to them?

That critique seems right to me. But a focus on China’s failures or on Trump’s praise risks distracting from our own failures in health care — and this is where Trump’s actions have been more destructive than his words. He has proposed enormous budget cuts for Medicaid, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; if carried out, these would leave the U.S. more vulnerable to a pandemic.

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[abqtommy]

1. It's just tRUMP being best at the evil he does.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Hopefully, Dickless Donnie will get infected at one of his klan rallies.