Trump new healthcare plan: 'We'll let Obamacare fail'

[JEDI]

(I didn't see anything on 1st page)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/trump-health-care-failure/index.html

So 'Repeal and Replace' failed.
'Repeal then Replace later' failed.

Now, he wants to let Obamacare fail, as a de facto repeal.

How is Trump going to let Obamacare fail?

 

[K1052]

It's brilliant...who would ever blame the people in power.

Just everyone I guess.

 

[herm0016]

WAIT...so he is keeping what you want and you are angry about it??

 

[MomentsofSanity]

(I didn't see anything on 1st page)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/trump-health-care-failure/index.html

So 'Repeal and Replace' failed.
'Repeal then Replace later' failed.

Now, he wants to let Obamacare fail, as a de facto repeal.

How is Trump going to let Obamacare fail?

They will cut what they can. Do nothing to fix anything and the insurance companies will pull out of exchanges due to the complete uncertainty.

 

[sactoking]

Just to be clear when he says "let it fail" what he really means is "leave it in place while we actively sabotage it." It is questionable as to whether it would have actually failed had Congress and the White House not dicked around with the mandate, CSRs, 3 Rs, and other key components.

 

[umbrella39]

WAIT...so he is keeping what you want and you are angry about it??

Not sure you understand the word Keeping....

 

[Maxima1]

WAIT...so he is keeping what you want and you are angry about it??

No, Trump wants the GOP to sabotage it e.g. via the cost-sharing subsidies suit, and then blame the Democrats for it.

 

[crashtech]

I thought the eventual failure of our current system was the end game for proponents of single-payer anyway.

 

[Younigue]

With a lot of help from him! Piece of Filth!

 

[Younigue]

Am I wrong... He has threatened not to pay Insurers (with the people's tax dollars!)?

 

[IronWing]

I thought the eventual failure of our current system was the end game for proponents of single-payer anyway.

True but there is no good reason to let people die before we move to a single payer system. There are lots of bad reasons to do so and damn it if the Republicans aren't going to run the complete list.

 

[Jhhnn]

Just to be clear when he says "let it fail" what he really means is "leave it in place while we actively sabotage it." It is questionable as to whether it would have actually failed had Congress and the White House not dicked around with the mandate, CSRs, 3 Rs, and other key components.

Facts don't matter to the Trumpsters. They believe in Donald Trump. It's inconceivable to them that he's screwing them over.

 

[Younigue]

Facts don't matter to the Trumpsters. They believe in Donald Trump. It's inconceivable to them that he's screwing them over.

They'll just ignore the butt pain. Won't be covered any way.

 

[Jhhnn]

I thought the eventual failure of our current system was the end game for proponents of single-payer anyway.

Failure isn't required. It can be accomplished to the degree necessary by creating a govt option in the Exchange.

 

[crashtech]

Failure isn't required. It can be accomplished to the degree necessary by creating a govt option in the Exchange.

Like "whither on the vine?"

 

[Bitek]

So the president just promised a rain of misery onto a large number of citizens, to celebrate their illnesses, to cheer the bankruptcies, and wait like a drooling hyena to prey upon the suffering to further his own.

 

[snoopy7548]

How can this schmuck even call himself American? Hmm, now that I think of it I don't think he ever has...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

SO
MUCH
WINNING!!

 

[Yakk]

Trump failed before Obamacare ...

Who would've thought

 

[crashtech]

So the president just promised a rain of misery onto a large number of citizens, celebrate their illnesses, cheer the bankruptcies, and wait like a drooling hyena to prey upon the suffering to further his own.

I know, so it's so much better to look forward to a reign of misery upon all citizens, celebrate their freedom from choice, cheer sameness mistaken for equality, and wait like a drooling bureaucrat ready to prey upon the suffering of others to justify their own existence.

 

[UNCjigga]

How is that a "plan"? Trump never had a plan, and he never will. He's accomplished nothing to date and I'm not sure he'll get anything done in his term. His one accomplishment--appointing a conservative judge to fill Scalia's seat--really belongs to Mitch McConnell and Judicial Crisis Network.

 

[Thump553]

As I recall didn't he already do things like shorten the signup period, eliminate funds for advertising when and how to sign up, etc. For a while at least he was not funding the subsidies to insurers.

The Trump concept of let it fail is more akin to we will cut the funding and resources and then say I told you so when it does fail.

I don't see how this is going to punish the GOP senators who stood up to his horrible plan in any event.

I wonder if he will do the same thing in Iraq, as he claims he always opposed that war from the beginning.

 

[agent00f]

I know, so it's so much better to look forward to a reign of misery upon all citizens, celebrate their freedom from choice, cheer sameness mistaken for equality, and wait like a drooling bureaucrat ready to prey upon the suffering of others to justify their own existence.

I think you know that the rest of the first world have better healthcare overall for half the cost, so the question is what you're looking to get out of pretending otherwise.

 

[Jhhnn]

Like "whither on the vine?"

Like creating an orderly transition that preserves coverage throughout the process.

 

[Jhhnn]

I know, so it's so much better to look forward to a reign of misery upon all citizens, celebrate their freedom from choice, cheer sameness mistaken for equality, and wait like a drooling bureaucrat ready to prey upon the suffering of others to justify their own existence.

So much winning! So much Freedumb!