President Donald Trump on Saturday defended Senate Republicans’ Obamacare repeal by arguing against the law it seeks to roll back.
Democrats slam GOP healthcare proposal as Obamacare premiums & deductibles increase by over 100%. Remember keep your doctor, keep your plan?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2017
Trump’s reference to “keep your doctor, keep your plan” appeared to be in reference to former President Barack Obama’s claim in support of the Affordable Care Act that Americans who liked their health insurance plans could keep them. Politifact notably named that claim its “Lie of the Year” in 2013.
But while it’s true that health care costs are rising, there’s little evidence that Senate Republicans’ bill, which was negotiated in secret for weeks and could see a vote as early as Thursday, would do anything to stop that rise. In fact, it would likely increase consumers’ out-of-pocket costs.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that they aimed to have an estimate on the impacts of the Senate proposal “early next week.”
Trump has consistently made dramatic promises about health care — including that he would sign into law a bill to provide “insurance for everybody” and that he would not sign off on cuts to programs like Medicaid — that Republican legislators have not achieved in their Obamacare repeal effort.
On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump was “very supportive of the current bill,” referring to the Senate Republicans’ bill, and that “he’s committed to making sure that no one who currently is in the Medicaid program is affected in any way, which is reflected in the Senate bill and he’s pleased with that.”
However, Senate Republicans’ bill would make deep cuts to Medicaid, rolling back Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and transforming federal Medicaid payments to the states into per capita reimbursements, the rates of rich would get smaller and smaller through 2025, or block grants.
So, the unfit, unqualified, incompetent scumbag is incapable of fulfilling his oath to uphold the laws of the US.
This is a surprising turn of events.
Remember keep your doctor, keep your plan?
I do. I also recall that the ACA grandfathered lousy plans, so people could keep them as long as the companies wanted to sell them, though they could not offer noncompliant plans to new customers. I do not recall the President promising people that insurance companies would continue to sell noncompliant plans.
What I don’t recall is any component of the ACA that took doctors away from people.
People did lose their doctors and their plans, but not because of the ACA.
But yet, YOU Donnie, are not required to keep your ‘promises’? Or will you just have another rally insisting that you didn’t say what everyone heard you say…it’s just the lying media, democrats, insert-a-name-of-your-newest-enemy are pretending you did…
Hey Donald, remember strengthening Medicaid? Remember giving all Americans healthcare?? That was you.
I’m reminded of a story about a poor merchant marine who contracted a virulent fungal STD while traveling in Southeast Asia.
The ship’s doctor, and the local western doctor, both told him that he was going to lose his dick, and they needed to cut it off.
In desperation, he went to a traditional Chinese doctor. He explained his problem, and said that he couldn’t accept having his dick cut off.
The local doctor, named 唐納德·特朗普, relieved him immediately when he said, “The Western doctors are no right. No need to cut off dick”
“Whew!!! What a relief”.
“In two week, it fall off by itself.”