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Trump promises "great" health care, if "we get the House, hold the Senate, and keep the presidency"
As noted by CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, Trump was asked by a reporter in New Hampshire this week to describe his health care plan, and the president responded with a stream of gobbledygook.
“So, we have a great plan coming out,” the president began when asked about his plan. “It’s going to be — if we can take back the House because we’re not going to get the Democrats to vote for it, because they’re doing Medicare for all, which is going to take away your freedom, take away your doctors, take away everything that you should be able to have, and most importantly, it’s going to take away — we have 180 million people right now that have private insurance and they love it, and all of that’s going to be taken away. It’s absolute craziness.”
“On top of everything else, they’re looking at 80, 90, 95 percent tax, because there’s no — there’s no way they can afford it,” he said. “But people don’t want to go to a hospital, to go to a doctor. They don’t want to go. They want to have their own doctor, number one, and we went through this with Obamacare, which we got rid of the individual mandate, by the way, which is very important.”
After all this, the president finally pivoted back to talking about his own health care plan, but he offered zero details about what it would contain.
“But we have a great health care plan,” he said. “If we get the House, we hold the Senate, we keep the presidency, we’re going to have great health care, much better than Obamacare, at much less cost.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-unleashes-bizarre-stream-of-gobbledygook-when-reporter-asks-him-to-describe-his-health-care-plan/
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Big Pharma, Big Medi, Big Insurance, big whatever. Basically back to what it was before Obamacare, but worse.
We don't have a healthcare system, we have a healtcare industry. The ACA provided some minor regulations and improvements, but it's still controlled by the corporatists.
The Repub plan is to cut us all loose to find our own way. You know, freedumb. 
