Republicans Scramble for Health Care Plan

@#9 ... The ideas they WON'T embrace:

Eliminate the insurance middlemen.
Create a Public Option.
Price increase caps for the medical industry.

What WILL happen:

McInsurance, with a side of Gaslighting how great it is. ...

Spot on.

OK, I originally went to my "Trump quote" file to retrieve some of his healthcare quote.

But the few oter quotes on different topics also seen to be screaming, "pick me, pick me!" So here's the bunch of 'em ...

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Candidate Trump on golf:

February 4, 2016
I love golf... but if I were in the White House ... I'd just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.

March 14, 2016
If you're here at the White House, and you have so much work to do, why do you fly? Why do you leave so much?

August 6, 2016
I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to be playing golf.

August 25, 2016
I won't be playing golf.

Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016
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Pres-elect Trump on healthcare:

"We're going to have insurance for everybody ... 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."
-- Pres-elect Trump to the Washington Post in January 2017

Pres Trump on healthcare:

"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017

Candidate Trump on deal-making

June 16, 2015 - we need a leader that wrote the Art of the Deal

October 14, 2015 - I will negotiate deals that nobody can negotiate like I do. Nobody is going to be able to do the kind of things I can do.

December 3, 2015 - I believe, because I'm a deal-maker, I believe that I can put both sides together.

Trump on classified docs

August 18, 2016 - In my Administration, I am going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.
( www.politico.com )

September 6, 2016 - ...one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules, and enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information..
( thehill.com )

Trump on Shutdown under Pres Obama

9/30/13 - Who gets fired? It always has to be the top. Problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top. The President's the leader. Five years, 50 years, a 100 years from now, when they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the President of the United States and who was the President at that time.

4/7/11 - If there was a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed, and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the President would be blamed.

4/7/11 - I'm a deal man. I made hundreds and hundreds of deals and transactions. He never did deals before. How can you expect a man that is not a deal man, that never did a deal, other than, frankly, becoming President of the United States. He never did a deal. How is he going to corral all these people? I'd get everybody together, and we'd have a budget. The President of the United States has to get this done. The shutdown is pretty said because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us.

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@#18

thx for that update.

More...

Trump said he has 'concepts' of a health care plan. What we know about his policies (September 11. 2024)
abcnews.go.com

... Health care was one of the topics at the forefront of Tuesday night's debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump said he was interested in replacing the Affordable Care Act -- also known as "Obamacare" -- but implied that he didn't have any specific plans in place.

"Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was," Trump said. "It's not very good today and, what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it."

When asked by ABC News moderator Linsey Davis to clarify if he had a health care plan, the former president said he had "concepts of a plan" to replace the ACA but provided no details.

"If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it," Trump said.

"But if we come up with something, I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive," he said later in the debate. "And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future." ...

OK, so now, here we are in late 2025.

Where are the "... great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better." that Pres Trump originally talked about back in 2016?

It's been nearly a decade.

Where are those great health plans?

And how will they be much less expensive and much better?

@#21 ... It's always possible he was just lying, in order to win the election. ...

I'd proffer, regarding Pres Trump, that he was lying because that is all he knows how to do.

That is, he was not just lying to get elected, but he was lying because lying is all he can do when he speaks.

The sad part is how much the MAGA aficionados have bought into those lies, and still believe them.

@#22 ... The sad part is how much the MAGA aficionados have bought into those lies, and still believe them. ...

Reminds me of the old pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song ...

Pink Floyd - Childhood's End (1972)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics and Composition
en.wikipedia.org(Pink_Floyd_song)

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Lyrics and composition

"Childhood's End" is about the stress and pressure of becoming an adult and being faced with difficult decisions on one's own.
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@#24 ... He might not even know he's doing it. ...

I've oft wondered if Pres Trump knows when he is lying, or whether it may be so ingrained in him, that he has not a clue when he does it.

Another pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song appeared on a playlist here ...

Pink Floyd - Cymbaline (1969)
www.youtube.com

en.wikipedia.org

... "Cymbaline" is a Pink Floyd song from the album Soundtrack from the Film More.[1][2]

Lyrics

Its lyrics vividly tell the tale of a "nightmare", which was the title of the song when it was first introduced in Floyd's The Man and The Journey Tour shows. The lyrics include a reference to the character Doctor Strange, who was popular at the time due to the psychedelic nature of his adventures and who had appeared on the cover of their previous album A Saucerful of Secrets. ...

Yeah, the pre-DSotM Pink Floyd albums, when Pink Floyd was doing a lot of soundtrack work, were quite interesting.

@#27 ... I think he just says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear at any given moment. Reality be damned. ...

My first though upon reading your comment, yeah, that may be correct. Or not.

But after taking a step back, I'd tend to agree.

Pres Trump wants unfettered obsequious adulation, and how to attain that? Simple, tell people what they want to hear. They'll love you for that (case in point, FoxNews).