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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Tue Jun 27, 2017, 06:13 AM Jun 2017

If Trump signs the AHCA, he would specifically break his campaign-promises on healthcare:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/24/politics/trump-health-care-promises/index.html

"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not," Trump said. He added: "The government's gonna pay for it."
More recently, as president-elect, Trump reiterated his support for the idea in January.
"We're going to have insurance for everybody," he said in an interview with 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."

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In October 2015, he tweeted, "I am going to save Medicare and Medicaid, (Dr. Ben) Carson wants to abolish, and failing candidate Gov. John Kasich doesn't have a clue - weak!"

I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.

The Republicans who want to cut SS & Medicaid are wrong. A robust economy will Make America Great Again!

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Another key promise Trump repeatedly has made is that his health plan will lower costs. In January, for example, President-elect Trump told the Post that his plan would include "lower numbers, much lower deductibles."
But if the analysis of the Senate bill is similar the House bill's, this promise might also be broken. The CBO found that while the House bill would decrease health care premiums for healthier, younger Americans, it could drastically increases costs for sicker, older citizens.