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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 06:04 AM Sep 2020

Trump's 'terrific' health-care plan is so secret his own health advisers don't know it exists




Trump’s ‘terrific’ health-care plan is so secret his own health advisers don’t 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

There’s secret, top-secret, code-word-secret — and then there’s whatever President Trump’s health-care plan is.

It’s apparently so deeply classified that the people overseeing the plan don’t even know they’re involved.

The Republican Party has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade — that is, the entirety of the law’s 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 Trump’s 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 it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”...........................



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Trump's 'terrific' health-care plan is so secret his own health advisers don't know it exists (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2020 OP
Manhattan Project secret. TexasTowelie Sep 2020 #1
More secret even then that.....think more along the lines of National Treasure secret but cstanleytech Sep 2020 #4
The former Rep from Florida saw the plan. gab13by13 Sep 2020 #2
Details DemUnleashed Sep 2020 #3
Maybe it is written in Russian so few would be able to tell it was a health care plan? rurallib Sep 2020 #5
Right. Maybe it's actually a funeral plan... Illumination Sep 2020 #7
... and it probably involves Novichok Danascot Sep 2020 #12
It's the Republican plan also, gab13by13 Sep 2020 #6
...GOPeeDon'tCare.... lastlib Sep 2020 #11
Next he will say, he'll have it ready for public view just after the election ashredux Sep 2020 #8
Wait, here it is C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #9
He has no idea what's involved. Dios Mio Sep 2020 #10
This secret look at the Trump health plan was release by a whistleblower connect to the project. usaf-vet Sep 2020 #13
He will release it right after his tax returns and President Obama's real birth certificate. Marcuse Sep 2020 #14
Two weeks to him BillyBobBrilliant Sep 2020 #15

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
4. More secret even then that.....think more along the lines of National Treasure secret but
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 07:42 AM
Sep 2020

rather than having Nicolas Cage we have Donald Trump.

DemUnleashed

(633 posts)
3. Details
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 07:20 AM
Sep 2020

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!

gab13by13

(20,867 posts)
6. It's the Republican plan also,
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 07:53 AM
Sep 2020

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.

Dios Mio

(429 posts)
10. He has no idea what's involved.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 08:48 AM
Sep 2020

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)
13. This secret look at the Trump health plan was release by a whistleblower connect to the project.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 09:07 AM
Sep 2020


You would have to admit it is the largest band-aid the country has seen. Even good for pre-existing road rash.
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