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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/9-explosive-claims-michael-wolffs-book-media-missedFrom the KKK to Richard Nixon, a multiplicity of horrifying accounts emerge.
By Chris Sosa / AlterNet
January 24, 2018, 1:32 PM GMT
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3. Trumps preferred health care solution is Medicare-for-all.
The president had to be coached by his right-wing handlers to prevent him from embracing socialized medicine.
All things considered, he probably preferred the notion of more people having health insurance than fewer people having it. He was even, when push came to shove, rather more for Obamacare than for repealing Obamacare, Wolff writes.
As well, he had made a set of rash Obama-like promises, going so far as to say that under a forthcoming Trumpcare plan (he had to be strongly discouraged from using this kind of rebrandingpolitical wise men told him that this was one instance where he might not want to claim ownership with his name), no one would lose their health insurance, and that preexisting conditions would continue to be covered. In fact, he probably favored government-funded health care more than any other Republican.
While the conclusion is the opinion of the author, a direct quote attributed to Trump is eyebrow-raising. It finds Trump flat-out toying with a health care solution to the left of the traditional Democratic position.
Why cant Medicare simply cover everybody? [Trump] had impatiently wondered aloud during one discussion with aides, all of whom were careful not to react to this heresy, Wolff writes.
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JI7
(89,252 posts)But not becsuse he supports it in itself. And his biggest priority is his personal financial benefit so if the donors don't want it he will do as they say.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts).... wouldn't that create more jobs for the carpenters?"
delisen
(6,044 posts)named after him.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)And all Trump said to his daughter was - Honey, I told you this is a tough town.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Eww
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Because he doesnt understand jack sh*t about policy and doesnt spend even five minutes trying to learn about or understand it.
And that is why he does whiplash about faces on policy issues on a constant basis. He says whatever the last person told him, and then completely changes it the next day. Jello.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)In the past he changed his political affiliation 5 times since the 80s. Stable. Genius. NOPE!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)so he then pulled giving medicare to everybody out of his ass until Kelly, Pence, or Ryan or McConnell told him no
erronis
(15,303 posts)I think whatever his eyeballs focus on when he has a particularly good chomp of a McBugger is what gets his little id excited.
Slather some extra "special sauce" and drooling cheese on there and then show the chump a picture of rich/happy/white people.
A soggy pickle and a bit of kangaroo meat while looking at graphs of inequality are not the right recipe.
Who prepares his meals? Who picks his allowed channels and times? Who changes his diapers?
The Mercers/Kochs/Putins must be filthy rich to hire that type of help.
Or they are just manufacturing their wealth, like dump.
genxlib
(5,528 posts)"How about we kill Obamacare and implement this program called the Affordable Care Act except that it really needs to have a Trump branded public option"
As long as it was sold as better than Obamacare, he would have bought it.
But in the immortal words of the stable genius...who knew health care could be this hard.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)he gets a cut. That's what money launderers do: its easy and they get their cut.
cab67
(2,993 posts)The whole thing comes across as tragicomic - the people least qualified to be within eyesight of the White House ended up working there.
MrPurple
(985 posts)Multiple people who met with him reported that Trump repeatedly asked why we have nukes if we don't use them and asked about situations where he could deploy them.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)I wish one of the debate moderators had just asked him flat out if he'd ever paid for someone to have an abortion. Just a yes or no question. But they were all too busy playing "Celebrity Apprentice" to the harm of our country.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)which he's discussed on Stern's show, I'd be surprised if there hasn't been an abortion intertwined with his social history.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)but he has been for universal coverage for a long time. Its possibly the only issue that he has been consistent about. Possibly due to its simplicity. If dems take over senate and house, trump may sign medicare for all bill which is the only sustainable solution (there are no alternatives).
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I think he got that from Roger Stone.Not sure, but I think so.