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Title: President Elect Trump's Plan for Healthcare Reform
Source: GreatAgain.Gov
URL Source: https://www.greatagain.gov/policy/healthcare.html
Published: Nov 25, 2016
Author: Donald J. Trump
Post Date: 2016-11-25 15:29:19 by packrat1145
Keywords: Trump, Health, Reform
Views: 10074
Comments: 37

It is clear to any objective observer that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has resulted in rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, narrow networks, and health insurance, has not been a success.  A Trump Administration will work with Congress to repeal the ACA and replace it with a solution that includes Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and returns the historic role in regulating health insurance to the States.  The Administration’s goal will be to create a patient-centered healthcare system that promotes choice, quality and affordability with health insurance and healthcare, and take any needed action to alleviate the burdens imposed on American families and businesses by the law.   

To maximize choice and create a dynamic market for health insurance, the Administration will work with Congress to enable people to purchase insurance across state lines.  The Administration also will work with both Congress and the States to re-establish high-risk pools – a proven approach to ensuring access to health insurance coverage for individuals who have significant medical expenses and who have not maintained continuous coverage.

The Administration recognizes that the problems with the U.S. health care system did not begin with – and will not end with the repeal of – the ACA.  With the assistance of Congress and working with the States, as appropriate, the Administration will act to:

*Protect individual conscience in healthcare *Protect innocent human life from conception to natural death, including the most defenseless and those Americans with disabilities *Advance research and development in healthcare *Reform the Food and Drug Administration, to put greater focus on the need of patients for new and innovative medical products *Modernize Medicare, so that it will be ready for the challenges with the coming retirement of the Baby Boom generation – and beyond *Maximize flexibility for States in administering Medicaid, to enable States to experiment with innovative methods to deliver healthcare to our low-income >>citizens

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#1. To: packrat1145 (#0)

Where in the US Constitution is there any authorization of federal meddling into and about private medical insurance in any way?

Why is Trump perpetuating a "myth?"

buckeroo  posted on  2016-11-25   16:19:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: buckeroo (#1)

"Where in the US Constitution is there any authorization of federal meddling into and about private medical insurance in any way?"

Where in the US Constitution is there any authorization of federal programs like Medicaid and Medicare?

misterwhite  posted on  2016-11-25   19:20:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: misterwhite (#11)

Where in the US Constitution is there any authorization of federal programs like Medicaid and Medicare?

Do you want to get rid of both?

redleghunter  posted on  2016-11-25   22:20:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: redleghunter (#23)

"Do you want to get rid of both?"

Yep. Turn Medicaid over to the states and privatize Medicare.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-11-26   10:43:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: misterwhite (#26)

The States for the most part already run Medicaid.

How would you privatize Medicare?

redleghunter  posted on  2016-11-26   15:21:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: redleghunter (#34) (Edited)

There seems to be a fetish on the Right with who gets to run things. States, and municipalities, are exalted over the federal government as somehow being more efficient.

I think of Detroit, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Arkansas, and the relentless, endless corruption that is New Jersey, and I do not discern that states actually run things better than, or even as well as, the Federal government.

And because I don't discern any qualitative difference between federally-run and state-run, I have no federalism fetish. I don't care at what LEVEL it is run, what I care is that it EXISTS.

Health care, either provided by doctors directly employed by the government (an unnecessary excess of control, I think), or provided by doctors paid for by single-payer public insurance, is the only way to really cover everybody, the only way to cover old people, the only way to cover cancer and the poor.

Major illness in America makes people poor.

I've heard the right wing Republican line for decades, and it is bullshit. Health insurance for all cannot be profitably done by insurance companies, and in any case there is no reason to LET insurance companies take a profit from human illness. Doctors provide a service. Insurance companies provide money at a premium so they can produce profits for their shareholders. If the government pays out the insurance payments instead, there is no profit margin, and it is cheaper, which leaves more money for health care.

I don't particularly care if it's "socialism" or whatever. It is a necessity, like defense, and the private sector cannot reliably provide coverage for everybody. That was always true. That's why we had Medicare in the first place, because before we had it, there were a lot of old people unable to pay their medical bills. We fixed that, for them. Obamacare sought to fix it for the whole country, but the Republicans were so belligerent, resistant and recalcitrant that there was no acceptance of the basic fact we need it.

So instead of proposing ideas that would work, the Republicans proposed NOTHING - they proposed leaving things as they are. Things as they are doesn't work. Neither does Obamacare.

Trump is not going to privatize Medicare. He always believed single payer was best, though he's not likely to go there either. He recognizes that politically that's a bridge too far. So he'll have a national health insurance market, with subsidies to individuals to cover the cost. It'll be better than Obamacare, but expensive, and everybody will have the coverage. Purists on the Right who can never reconcile themselves to the necessity of government will grouse about it forever, as they do Social Security, but just as with Social Security, the broad majority of the country will understand the necessity, and we will have what we need.

When I write here, I am trying my hardest to appeal to the humanity, the Christianity and the common sense of men on the Right who are never going to be HAPPY about large government programs and expenditures - and outside of the cost of war in wartime, health care is the grandaddy of all major programs. Still, because of the humanity of it, and the Christianity of it, we HAVE TO do it, so I keep plugging away at trying to get men of the Right to see it, accept it and agree, however grudgingly, that yeah, we really don't have any good options, and so to accept the inevitable.

Because of political realities, we're never going to get to single payer, so even though the profit margin for insurers is essentially useless for delivering health care, a substantial part of the government subsidy that families will have to get to afford health insurance will be, in reality, a direct subsidy to the profit margins of the insurance companies.

That's not great, but as long as everybody is covered by the the insurance, we will have to live with that cost inefficiency.

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