Trump vows ‘insurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan

[bunklocoempire]

It's too bad Trump doesn't have internet access.

 

[silverhandorder]

Health savings accounts for all would work well. I got pretty sick recently and with all I pay insurance and out of pocket is more than enough to treat 99% of people.

 

[donnay]

'We're going to have insurance for everybody': Trump heralds GOP's Obamacare alternative as Rand Paul reveals it will focus on low-cost policies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...alth-care-plan-insurance-access-everyone.html

 

[Seraphim]

Health savings accounts for all would work well. I got pretty sick recently and with all I pay insurance and out of pocket is more than enough to treat 99% of people.

From what I can tell, this is the real direction and the "insurance for all" will cover the most vulnerable while everyone else gets free market options available via a tax free savings account.

I don't think single payer is the goal. Trump has said universal health care in Canada is better then what Americans deal with now, but it's not the goal. He's said single payer in USA would be aweful.

I hope savings account option for all and then coverage for the 5 or 10%? don't have the rug pulled out from under them. It would be a vastly superior option to Obamacare and could help transition to less government.

I'm cautiously optimistic. Key word cautiously.

 

[jmdrake]

It's too bad Trump doesn't have internet access.

Let the spin begin!

 

[timosman]

As long as everyone ignores the fact that insurance itself is the cause of rising medical care prices, there will be no solution.

The phrase "don't worry, you won't have to pay" is incompatible with free market price competition.

This is how you convince the sheep to vote against their own interest.

 

[Ender]

I totally agree that free market is the only way to go. Back in the 1950s you could get insurance for literally a few dollars a month. Then the govt fixed it.

What I'm wondering is if there's a compromise position, sort of like food stamps, where you don't completely ruin the free market system, but the really poor get at least some minimal emergency care. Maybe a totally separate govt clinic. You might have to wait a day to get in, and the quality might be low, but at least you'd get taken care of without screwing up the free market system.

When I was in Calif all hospitals took care of patients needing emergency care, whether they had money or not. Also, Catholic hospitals always take care of the poor, although I believe the gov has tried to intercede with that- and these hospitals are 5 star.

 

[Madison320]

...the phrase 'you can't offer/provide services without a government-issued occupational licen$e' is a bigger factor...but not a stinking peep about that from any 'liberty republican' or any other republicrat....

Yup, that's a pretty big one. That cuts the supply of doctors way down. Econ 101.

 

[timosman]

Yup, that's a pretty big one. That cuts the supply of doctors way down. Econ 101.

Yeah, but now the doctors are highly qualified. They can push pills like there is no tomorrow.

 

[Theocrat]

Are We Really Surprised?

Donald Trump has been arguing for his own version of universal healthcare all throughout his campaign:

 

[Carlybee]

When I was in Calif all hospitals took care of patients needing emergency care, whether they had money or not. Also, Catholic hospitals always take care of the poor, although I believe the gov has tried to intercede with that- and these hospitals are 5 star.

They do that here too but you may have a 12 hour wait. We had a 12 hour wait with insurance last time my son went to the ER.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Remember this one? He was never about a full repeal.

As he has developed a replacement package, Trump said he has paid attention to critics who say that repealing Obamacare would put coverage at risk for more than 20 million Americans covered under the law’s insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion.

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said. “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.” People covered under the law “can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better.”

Republican leaders have said that they will not strand people who gained insurance under the ACA without coverage. But it remains unclear from either Trump’s comments in the interview or recent remarks by GOP leaders on Capitol Hill how they intend to accomplish that.

For conservative Republicans dubious about his pledge to ensure coverage for millions, Trump pointed to several interviews he gave during the campaign in which he promised to “not have people dying on the street.”

He never did release his own plan they said was almost ready back in January. "We're gonna have it ready on Day One!"