Rambling Trump flops hard after Rush Limbaugh asks how he will protect people with pre-existing cond

[brooklynite]

Source: Raw Story

President Donald Trump rambled off-topic after Rush Limbaugh asked him about health care protections for those with pre-existing conditions.

The president and his Republican allies are keen to undo the Affordable Care Act, which could place health care out of reach for Americans with pre-existing conditions, and the conservative Limbaugh asked Trump to explain his plan.


“This is [from] a woman in Massachusetts named Kathy,” Limbaugh said, reading the listener’s question. “‘I’m glad that you and the lady are recovering from COVID, so happy you’re our president thank you for all you do to defender us. Questions about health care and pre-existing conditions are very important to me and a lot of Americans. I believe you said pre-existing conditions will be covered in your health care plan, but please could you explain this a little more because there are a lot of people saying you’re not going to cover pre-existing conditions and I wish you need to get your message out since this that the Democrats are trying to malign you on this.”

The president didn’t spend much time addressing health care or pre-existing conditions.


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/rambling-trump-flops-hard-after-rush-limbaugh-asks-how-he-will-protect-people-with-pre-existing-conditions/

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People were putting those MY PILLOWS to use...

[BlueStater]

1. So he's capable of giving a two-hour interview?

How did his voice sound?

[Dave Starsky]

2. Trump's super power is running his idiot mouth.

He could have a sucking chest wound and still manage to yap away like it's nothing.

[SergeStorms]

7. He had a week's worth of Adderall stockpiled....

from when he was so sick, so what better time to catch up with an old friend than when you're swapping lies with Rusty Limbaugh?

I'm glad my ears weren't subjected to that slop fest.

[IronLionZion]

3. Funny how he can hold this event virtually

but debating Joe virtually through videoconference would be socialism, take away our freedoms, and end the American way of life, or whatever.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Trump said ...

“No.
I want to terminate Obamacare and then come up with a great,
and we have come up with a great health care plan that’s much less expensive and does include people with pre-existing conditions.
That’s what I want to do.”

So the great Trump health care plan still does not exist after four years of Trump !

[SergeStorms]

8. That was suppsed to be finalized weeks ago!

The famous Trump Healthcare Plan will debut at the exact same time as Trump Infrastructure Week.

[CaptainTruth]

10. More like 9 years ago, when the GOP voted 60+ times to repeal the ACA.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. The GOP has been trying to "come up with" a replacement plan FOR 10 YEARS!

This is why Obama pushed so hard to get SOMETHING in place. It is imperfect and is being dismantled piece by piece, but the goal was to use it as a launching point, since the "framework" would be there, to go in whatever direction was do-able. Even if one wants to go with "Medicare for All", the ACA would be the "holding system" while the eligible age for the current Medicare system, is slowly dropped (which would also give time to adapt the system for surges of newly eligible).

[FakeNoose]

9. That's OK. Joe Biden will save the ACA

Then he'll fix everything so it's even better than before.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. very good points, Thanks.

[progree]

6. Oh, they did come up with replacement "healthcare" plans, the AHCA and BCRA, in 2017

Problem was they were awful

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.

I'm sick and tired of the meme that they have never come up with a replacement plan, they have (where the hell were people in the first quarter of 2017, it was much discussed at DU back then). We've seen the replacement plans and there is no reason to believe that the next one, if they ever do come up with a next one, will be better.

[kacekwl]

11. I'm surprised Limbaugh would allow such a question

Knowing full well he has nothing. Was the caller satisfied with his answer ?

[videohead5]

13. Just wait until

They take him off of those steroids. He will crash. People with COVID have fatigue for weeks after they get over it.

[Beartracks]

14. Trump's health plan is vaporware.

Which is to say, it doesn't exist and never will, but he'll happily talk it up and promise a bunch of great things, and promote it and sell it, and it will always be just a month or two away...

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[ck4829]

15. Kick