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Peaceful Protester

(280 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:21 PM Dec 2017

Reminder: Trump's Health Care Promises

Trump said he would not cut social security and medicare. This would have been one promise worth keeping. But, guess how the tax cuts for the wealthy are going to be compensated.

Trump's previous promises on health care
CNN (June 24, 2017 by Dylan Stafford)
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/24/politics/trump-health-care-promises/index.html
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Promise: Health care for all

"Trump repeatedly promised that he would cover all Americans when given the chance to repeal and replace Obamacare. He stated that coverage for everyone was 'just human decency' back in February of 2016."

"By then, he had already promised universal coverage. When he was a presidential candidate in 2015, Trump told CBS's Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes that 'everybody's got to be covered.' He conceded that it may be an 'un-Republican' thing to say, but he wanted to ensure that everyone had quality health care."

"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not, The government's gonna pay for it."

"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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Promise: Leave Medicaid alone

"One specific thing Trump has been clear on, however, is Medicaid. He has been consistent in voicing his opposition to any cuts to the program, which helps to provide coverage to low-income Americans. On the campaign trail, he often touted his promise to not touch Medicaid."

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!"

"The Senate GOP [tax] plan would certainly break Trump's promise to lay off Medicaid. It makes deep cuts to the program, ending its expansion under Obamacare and capping future payments."
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Reminder: Trump's Health Care Promises (Original Post) Peaceful Protester Dec 2017 OP
If he kept that promise hed become much more popular. David__77 Dec 2017 #1
Good quotes for use when talking to deplorables. Doodley Dec 2017 #2
He'll use the old, "I'm not cutting Medicare, just increases in costs each year." That's the usual Hoyt Dec 2017 #3
If his lips are moving he is lying. redstatebluegirl Dec 2017 #4
He's a racist liar and a pervert. All republikkklans lie! RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2017 #5

David__77

(23,418 posts)
1. If he kept that promise hed become much more popular.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:25 PM
Dec 2017

His hope lies in pivoting to that position and throwing out the GOP totally.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. He'll use the old, "I'm not cutting Medicare, just increases in costs each year." That's the usual
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:27 PM
Dec 2017

way they try to get around those lies. There's probably some truth in that short-term, but not long-term and Medicare has been hacked to death in many ways in recent years.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
4. If his lips are moving he is lying.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:38 PM
Dec 2017

Nothing he has said or will say will ever surprise me when we find out he lied. His supporters will not believe he did this to them, he will convince them it was the Democrats or Obama and Fox will help them.

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