The furor started when the Trump Justice Department changed directions in a case against the Affordable Care Act and asked the court to get rid of the whole law….
THAT set off alarm bells across the whole Republican parties lawmakers….
While Republicans have targeted the law since Democrats passed it as a way to demonize President Obama…
The healthcare program has become increasingly supported by Americans….
Any effort to get rid of it would probably cost a lot Republican lawmakers their jobs…
Trump, being Trump made a comment last week that he would replace Obamacare with another plan…..
Problem?
There is NO other plan….
There couldn’t be ANOTHER plan because to do so ?
Would require House Democratic Speaker Pelosi to approve it…
Duh?
This whole dance IS a clear signal to the courts to NOT throw out the whole Obamacare Act….
President Trump signaled Monday night that he will not press for a vote on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act until after next year’s elections, apparently heeding warnings from fellow Republicans about the perils of such a fight during campaign season.
In a series of late-night tweets, Trump continued to bash President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law but said a vote on a replacement would not occur until after the elections — suggesting that he believes he would still be in the White House and that Republicans would control both chambers of Congress at that point.
“Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House,” Trump wrote. “It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America.”
Congressional Republicans were caught off guard by Trump’s rapid shift to focus on health care last week, which was set off by his abrupt decision to direct the Justice Department to intervene in a federal court case seeking to eliminate the ACA in its entirety on constitutional grounds.
[For Trump’s ‘Party of Healthcare,’ there is no health-care plan]
Trump later showed up a Senate Republican luncheon where he declared that they should be the “party of health care” and asked for assistance in writing a new bill.
It soon became clear, however, that other Republicans had little appetite to take on an issue that benefited Democrats during last year’s midterm elections…..
No matter how conservative (the Heritage Foundation), centrist, liberal or radical you are, it should be clear any insurance plan cannot cover pre-existing conditions (extra demand) without some kind of univeral mandate to spread the risk (extra funding).
The ACA and Romneycare before it were just the most-conservative and insurance-company-friendly way to do it. Medicare-for-all (a National Health Service like Britain’s or Canada’s) would distribute the costs through compulsory FICA deductions from payrolls or self-employment earnings.
In fact they KNOW your point DSD….
I guess they must actually got him on healthcare….
I know they where besides themselves on this