Trump Asks Senators to Create 'Spectacular' Health Plan (wait until you read who's writing it)

[DonViejo]

March 28, 2019 at 6:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“President Trump said he asked a group of U.S. senators to create a health-care plan to replace Obamacare, as his administration seeks to have the law signed by his predecessor invalidated in court,” Bloomberg reports. Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rick Scott (R-FL) are developing the plan.

Said Trump: “They are going to work together, come up with something that’s really spectacular. Maybe we’ll even get support in the House from Democrats.”

He added: “But it’s going to be far better than Obamacare.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/28/trump-asks-senators-to-create-spectacular-health-plan/

[Vinca]

1. Well, finally we've identified the death panel.

[JHB]

2. +1

[Blues Heron]

3. I've had a few "spectacular" insurance price increases in my day

Thanks but no thanks!

[Jarqui]

4. When the Daily Beast followed up with those Senators,

they were 'no comment', or lip service, etc. No substance. They're not working on it.

Trump is going to try to kill the ACA in court with no solution to replace it. If he is successful, people will die without that coverage - about 1/1000 who lose the coverage die annually.

[watoos]

8. The dude from La. was on Don Lemon I think last night.

They have a plan actually, a pretty flimsy one. The plan is to sell junk insurance. People can buy insurance for practically nothing. I'm sure this insurance will have high deductibles and cover very little. When asked about how it would protect pre-existing conditions the dude said they would just pass a law. They are also going to lower drug prices but he lost me exactly how that would happen. No mention about keeping kids on their parents plan.

They do have a terrible plan they are working on.

[Jarqui]

11. They don't have a comprehensive plan

Court blocks another Trump attempt to undermine Obamacare
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/trump-obamacare-courts/index.html


They're just tossing wrenches into the gears of Obamacare

[watoos]

14. Not sure that is the same plan the dude from La. was pushing?

I agree they don't have a "comprehensive" plan. I said their plan is to sell junk insurance.

[Jarqui]

16. It's more than that

It's scattergun/various attempts to undermine/end Obamacare and make cuts to Medicare & Medicaid

[MiniMe]

20. "They can buy it for practically nothing" - and that is what it would cover, practically nothing

[HopeAgain]

5. Scott who denied Medicaid to thousands

and stole millions from the Federal Government. Bill is DOA.

[Lochloosa]

6. Skeletor aka Rick Scott? This should be a thing of beauty.

[superpatriotman]

7. One of the worse welfare swindlers in history

Rewarded with two terms as governor and now senator by the backwards r’s of Florida.

[watoos]

9. Not one of the worst swindlers in history,

I think he was the worst. I think he actually swindled more money than anyone else on record.

[spanone]

10. the guy who ripped off medicare will now be writing a healthcare plan.....Scott should be in prison

[democratisphere]

12. I thought Dr. Jared and Dr. Ivanka were working closely with

Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry and Dr. Curley to develop the Doctors
WiTH Borders Healthcare Plan.

[DFW]

13. Rick Scott is helping develop a health care plan???

That's like asking Hitler to help develop public relations pamphlets for the Jewish Defense League.

[mahina]

15. This is duck soup. He's already got a good number of people who put his interests and the interests

Of other rich folks above their own.

Just send him all your money and he’ll give you the best care, outstanding care, ok?

Rick frikken Scott? That is hilarious.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. Healthcare Fraud Rick Scott?

That Rick Scott?

Wow.

[Perrenial Voter]

18. Based on other Republican proposals I think it will have some

of the following elements:

1) There will be a work requirement, no matter how sick you are.
2) It will be means tested, probably at 50% of the poverty line.
3) There will be federal taxes on the benefits you receive.
4) People with criminal records will not be eligible.
5) It will be paid for by eliminating social security benefits.

[dalton99a]

19. Rick Scott, king of Medicare fraud

Scott was forced out of his hospital chain by his board in July 1997, after the federal government issued 35 warrants to search hospitals that were owned previously or at the time by Columbia/HCA and two companies doing business with the chain in seven states — Florida, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma and Georgia.

Scott had been reluctant to cooperate with federal investigators, not responding to repeated requests for an interview with federal investigators in 1995 regarding accusations against the company.

It wasn’t until six years after Scott resigned that HCA — after scrubbing “Columbia” from its title, Scott’s original company — that it fully settled its federal tab for 14 corporate felonies related to health care fraud: $1.7 billion.

In 2000, Scott was hauled into court over a civil lawsuit in which Nevada Communications Corp. charged that Columbia/HCA violated the terms of a communications contract. Scott refused to answer basic questions and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.