Trump's 'terrific' health-care plan is so secret his own health advisers don't know it exists
Trumps terrific health-care plan is so secret his own health advisers dont know it exists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-terrific-health-care-plan-is-so-secret-his-own-health-advisers-dont-know-it-exists/2020/09/17/266f4834-f917-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Opinion by Catherine Rampell Columnist
September 17, 2020 at 4:51 p.m. CDT
Theres secret, top-secret, code-word-secret and then theres whatever President Trumps health-care plan is.
Its apparently so deeply classified that the people overseeing the plan dont even know theyre involved.
The Republican Party has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade that is, the entirety of the laws existence. Trump began teasing his own replacement plan during his first presidential bid, five years ago. Back then, he pledged to swap out the Affordable Care Act for something terrific, details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper yet somehow also more generous than Obamacare. It would be so easy, even though nobody knew health care could be so complicated. It would take care of everybody, even as it took literal care away from many.
This plan was always two weeks away coincidentally the timeline promised for most every Trump announcement, including those about wiretapping, infrastructure and Melania Trumps immigration history.
As the fortnights passed, suspense grew. Finally, an announcement came this week: This Godot-like plan, this girlfriend-who-lives-in-Canada of public policies it exists!
I have it all ready, Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, and its a much better plan for you, and its a much better plan............................
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TexasTowelie
(111,313 posts)cstanleytech
(26,082 posts)rather than having Nicolas Cage we have Donald Trump.
gab13by13
(20,867 posts)Don't Get Sick.
If you do get sick die quickly.
DemUnleashed
(633 posts)When Drumpf said he already has a health care plan, that's when Stephanopoulous should have asked Drumpf for some of the details of the plan!
We know there isn't a plan...I would have loved seeing him stammering to try to give even one specific about the plan, along with details of how he plans to make it work
No more broad grandstanding, broad, one-line proposal ideas with this guy...ask for details on everything he proposes! He wouldn't be able to do it.The veil would then come off and everyone would be able to see how clueless (dumb!) he really is!
rurallib
(62,346 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)Danascot
(4,664 posts)gab13by13
(20,867 posts)Junk insurance for the poor and Cadillac insurance for the rich. Can't have poor people clogging up the doctor's office or emergency room if a rich person needs help.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Two parts, as noted above
1) Don't get sick
2) If you do, die ASAP.
ashredux
(2,593 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Apparently it's so secret they printed it with invisible ink.
Dios Mio
(429 posts)It took Obama and an expert team a long time to develop Obamacare. If Trump would have been normal it could have been tweaked by now into a masterpiece.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)You would have to admit it is the largest band-aid the country has seen. Even good for pre-existing road rash.
Marcuse
(7,399 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)is like the 40 years was to Moses.