Trump promises his Obamcare replacement plan will cover all: report [View all]
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Source: CNN
President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on an Obamacare replacement plan that aims to provide "insurance for all," he told The Washington Post.
...Trump is making some big promises: His insurance reform will cover more people and cost less money. "We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump told The Washington Post. "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
"[They] can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better," he said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/index.html
Much as I can't stand Trump, I sure hope he could have the strength to stand up to the Republicans in Congress and force through healthcare for all or at least something that's decent. He also has said we can't just let people die in the streets.
Perhaps there's a glimmer of hope that on this one issue, his bullying style could be what's needed. The GOP Congress has backed itself into a corner --insisting Obamacare is bad and must be repealed, but taking heat for not having a replacement or replacing it with something worse. They seriously underestimated the amount of pushback they'd get from their constituents.
On the other hand he could be misinterpreting when key Reps say "universal access" instead of "universal healthcare." I hope he will understand whatever he someday signs.
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