For the longest time, Donald Trump has been advocating for the complete and utter repeal of Obamacare – yet through all his talking he hasn’t released a plan of his own – that is until now.
On March 2, The Donald laid out a seven-point plan,
which is so lacking in detail and void of specifics that a high school student
could fit the entire thing on one page, double spaced even.
So – what’s the first
thing he wants to do? By getting rid of Obamacare altogether, as he says, Trump will
allow insurers to discriminate once again against people with pre-existing
conditions, giving insurers the option not to provide coverage as they see
fit, along with all the other protections Obamacare provides.
For a full list
of those shelters, visit HERE.
Trump has said in the past that he would replace the pre-existing condition rule with something else, something “much greater” but he must have forgotten about that promise because he didn’t offer any alternatives, not in this one-page plan.
While Obamacare may
seem complicated to some, getting rid of common sense provisions like this
should alarm every American. And, Trump isn’t alone on this. Paul Ryan, the new
Speaker of The House, was forced to admit that
popular rules like this (even among Republican voters) would end up going away
along with Obamacare.
So – that’s number one
– gut anything and everything, even if it makes sense – just because it’s
something Obama came up with. Got it.
What else is in there?
Trump wants to allow
insurers to compete across state lines. You might remember this if you watched
the debate last
week, where Rubio got the applause of the night for making fun of Trump about
it.
This was before Trump made his entire plan available, and the only thing he
could think of was this aspect of it. “Get rid of the state lines,” you
could hear him say, over and over.
It’s possible this is
the only real part of Donald Trump’s plan that he cares about. After all, this
was the only part he could remember when called out on the debate stage in
front of everyone.
The other remaining 5 points of
Trump’s plan, are as follows:
- Allow individuals to deduct health insurance premiums on their tax returns.
- Allow people to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) that are tax-free and able to accumulate over time.
- Make doctors, hospitals, and clinics become more price transparent.
- Provide block-grant Medicaid to the states.
- Allow prescription drugs to be imported from other countries.
Healthcare reform is
much more complicated than this, however. This seven-point plan doesn’t tell us
much. All it really says is what Republican voters want to hear.
And – here’s another
doozy. He made a statement trying
to link his strict immigration policies as being one factor in limiting the
cost of health insurance for illegal immigrants, but what he really did was
admit that illegal immigrants only cause a tiny fraction of the total cost of
healthcare.
Donald Trump says illegal immigrants cost the U.S. $11 billion
annually, but total health care spending in the U.S is around $2.9 trillion.
That’s not even a drop in the bucket. This is just further proof, straight from
the source, that illegals aren’t driving up the cost of healthcare like
Republicans claim.
It’s possible that the
real reason Trump’s plan is so short is because he’s perfectly happy with
insurance companies filling in the small details instead of the government.
We’ve already been there and done that. It didn’t work for the majority of
Americans before, and it won’t now, either.
