Trump postpones healthcare-reform to after 2020 election.

[DetlefK]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-healthcare/trump-says-vote-on-healthcare-can-wait-until-after-2020-election-idUSKCN1RE07O

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was willing to wait until after the 2020 presidential election to get Congress to vote on a new healthcare plan, giving Republicans time to develop a proposal to replace Obamacare.

Congressional Republicans have been unable thus far to draft a proposal to replace Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act despite frequent vows to do so in recent years.

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In a series of tweets on Monday night, Trump said Republicans are developing “a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles than Obamacare.”

“In other words it will be far less expensive & much more usable than ObamaCare. Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House,” he said.

Recycling a campaign-promise from his 2016 campaign? Yeah, that will work.

He might as well try to run on bringing coal back and on infrastructure-reform. And I think he actually might.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Well, that idea didn't stick to the wall.

[True Blue American]

4. Feces seldom does.

Pardon my French!

[ginnyinWI]

22. He'd much rather sell an empty promise than a real plan.

So much easier to promote something that is heaven on earth than the measily miserly disgraceful health care plan they will likely come up with, if they ever do. Social programs are not in the Republican DNA.

[George II]

2. Next week is going to be Infrastructure Week #97!

[True Blue American]

3. He also said there will be a period between repealing

Obamcare and a new bill. No, thank you. Republicans have had 100 years to make a plan.

Richard Nixon wanted health care for all but did nothing about it.

Trump also said they had to win back the House and increase the Senate.

[Freddie]

6. So everyone can lose their coverage

And start dying or going into major debt, and the they’ll “fix” it. That’ll work.
If we don’t have the usual circular firing squad in the primaries, the ads are writing themselves.

[Buckeyeblue]

5. It's funny how people claim that ACA is so bad...but can't tell you why

[True Blue American]

7. The things that need to be fixed

Could have been fixed 8 years ago if we had not had Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Paul Ryan in charge. Remember the 55 votes.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-laugh-health-care-us_n_590ba129e4b0e7021e9620db

[keithbvadu2]

8. Some like it while hating Obamacare

Link to tweet

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[Wounded Bear]

31. Because all the elements of ACA are popular...

aside from the individual mandate, I guess. Separately, the key parts of ACA like coverage for pre-exiting conditions always polled well.

Repubs can't come up with a replacement because ACA is based heavily on a Repub, Heritage Foundation plan, modified to be used by Massachussetts and then went national with Obamacare.

[djacq]

9. So easy to pick up on Trump's obvious lies.

[Sherman A1]

11. Yup

it is every time his lips are moving.

[boston bean]

10. He is still not going to defend it in court. So, he has no plan but wants it overturned in the court

[Vinca]

12. If the cult bites on this I wish them medical bankruptcy.

[Traildogbob]

18. Not just bankruptcy.

More like a thinning of the herd. No trumpanzees alive to vote. Mesothelioma, black lung, fracking waste drinking water, no vaccines, toxic air, plutonium waste, gulf fish, Monsanto plants saturated in roundup, and no health care to help. MAGA. Freedom! But....lots of guns and ammo to go after the tyrannical GOVment that wants to correct all that with socialism. God be blessin MurKKKa. Oh....caravans of raping, murdering, drug hauling women and children coming to get you, (Christian Refugees, ya know like Mary and Joseph). MAGA.lock her up!!!

[watoos]

13. I have no doubt that his premiums will be lower,

because his plan is to sell junk insurance. No way his deductibles will be lower unless his plan doesn't cover anything, which is a possibility.

Remember, Trump is a good con man, his insurance will be wonderful for people who don't need to use it.

[pazzyanne]

26. tRump's Medicare Supplemental plans increased Medicare Advantage Choice plans

by increasing premiums X 5, increasing co-pays, and decreasing coverage. I know because it happened to me!

[hedda_foil]

33. The insurance companies change Medicare Supplement premiums themselves.

Trump didn't do this one. There's a massive spread in the cost of premiums and deductibles. from one company to another for the same exact mandated benefits. That's been going on since at least Obama's presidency. I assume they're trying to move us to Advantage plans that are priced lower now but will no doubt zoom up any time now. It's just bidness.

[pazzyanne]

35. Then why are they called trump care Medicare Supplement plans?

[marylandblue]

14. Smartest thing he's ever done. That way the Democrat can do the job.

[mobeau69]

15. So they didn't have a plan after all.

[mobeau69]

16. Tim Kayne to introduce Medicare X

Exactly what Buttigieg's been proposing.

[Javaman]

17. he blinked. nt

[beachbum bob]

19. See the magic beans in my hand? I can't plant them until next year. Some will buy this but most

will not

Trump misspoke on another healthcare promise, McConnel then told the world, Mr. President we anxiously await YOUR plan....trump now running and hiding.

Democrats must pounce and DEMAND trump's plan NOW....put every republican on the spot

[demmiblue]

20. K&R

[Mc Mike]

21. He'll just continue to gut the ACA, and have his Justice Dept refuse to enforce the law, until then.

[bronxiteforever]

23. GOP's double secret, really great & cheap healthcare plan

The one that is being written for decades.
I can summarize it even though I haven’t seen it- you die unless you are rich.

[Ohiogal]

24. ...

[ginnyinWI]

25. And Nixon had a secret plan to win the Vietnam War. n/t

[Roy Rolling]

27. Give them a Chance!

By 2021 they will have a plan to replace the 2010 healthcare law. They will start working on it right after the next embarrassing defeat of an election.

Unless they hire the Russians to count the votes again.

There's an old joke. A guy wakes up from a coma after five years and finds a dry-cleaning ticket in his pocket. He goes to the dry cleaners and says, "I left this suit five years ago and fell into a coma." The dry cleaner looks at the ticket and tells him, "It'll be ready Thursday."

That is the Republican healthcare plan.

[llmart]

28. Fortunately we won't really have to worry about this much.

Because he'll be gone and the Dems will be in charge of the WH, Senate and House.

[Opel_Justwax]

29. Sure they are. Coverage up to $1,000 and a $100 deductible that costs $500 per year.

It will be health care insurance to die for.

[Eyeball_Kid]

30. Trumpy's Fans will fall for his bullshit, again and again.

Now they're waiting for Trumpy's magic formula for giving them heaven on earth. It's all magic. It's chutzpah. Were Trumpy to inject all of his followers with typhoid, they'd demand to get wheeled to the voting booth on gurneys with temps of 104 and pull the lever for Trumpy, just because he's "shaking things up." And he'll say that he's run out of money to give them aspirin, but that's okay. He'll come up with aspirin money next year. And if his Fans die before then? Well, he'll have less money to spend on aspirin.

[Wounded Bear]

32. It's reverse Wimpy...

I'll gladly give you a hamberder Thursday if you pay me today.

[Takket]

34. This is actually WORSE for them, isn't it???

So instead of ripping the bandaids off now, and going into 2020 with the voter thinking “this fight is over”....

NOW the Democrats can stand up there in 2020 and say “their plan is so awful they don’t even want to talk about in public, but I’m here to defend the ACA”.

This is a win for Democrats. Voters don’t want to hear “vote for me but I don’t want to say what I’m planning until after the election”.