Rand Paul: Trump Backs Plan To Repeal, Replace Obamacare Simultaneously
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JANUARY 7, 2017, 9:44 AM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Friday that President-elect Donald Trump “fully supports” his plan to delay the repeal of Obamacare until a replacement plan is prepared. The Kentucky senator claimed on Twitter that he received these assurances from Trump directly.
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I just spoke to @realDonaldTrump and he fully supports my plan to replace Obamacare the same day we repeal it. The time to act is now.
9:25 PM - 6 Jan 2017
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Paul this week said it would be a “huge mistake” for Congress to move forward with a quick repeal of the healthcare legislation that delays replacement until two years down the line. In a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he said “repeal and delay” could lead to insurance company bankruptcies.
Other senators including Susan Collins (R-ME), Bob Corker (R-TN) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have also called for simultaneous repeal and replacement in recent days, while Lamar Alexander (R-TN) told TPM that the GOP conference should “listen carefully to Rand Paul.” Republicans have yet to put forward any type of proposal for replacement, citing a lack of consensus on what it would look like.
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TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!..."
Ironically, they can correct the problem caused by Justice Roberts - leaving a gap of people just above qualifying for Medicaid who can not get subsidies because they are in the range for which Medicaid should have been expanded. We did not have the votes to do anything to fix that once it happened.
It is very possible that many red state people would then find that - for them - insurance became more affordable or better - under the new Trump plan. Ironically, the better WE do in pushing against draconian plans, the better the plan will be AND the more likely that Trump might get credit. However, doing that is the only moral thing for us to do.
There is also a difference between history and politics. I think that history will correctly give Obama the credit for a major expansion of health insurance -- and the Iran deal and the impressive environmental accomplishments including the Paris accords -- and various civil rights gains especially for LGBT. I think that, politics aside, all of these are moves in the direction the world is moving.
History will not finesse what Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan as much of the media has. I think that Obama might be blamed for Libya and for Yemen. I suspect that long term, he will not be blamed for Syria. My reason - now there are two 180 degrees apart narratives, both blaming Obama. One is he is to blame by not jumping in wholeheartedly - like in Iraq or even Libya - and kicking out Assad. The other is that he is to blame, because he did NOT give anti aircraft guns and other devastating weapons to the rebels and he did not, like Russia on the Assad side, bomb the Assad regime. One thing his administration did do was to get a UN resolution and to work hard for many ceasefires - that neither the rebels (who were our "responsibility" or Assad, who was Russia's "responsibility"
ever complied with.
Politics is likely what is concerning you. History is best written when the passions related to things have died and scholars can look at what was done, the motivations and the consequences. Long before we get there, perceptions of what happened will dictate how people feel about the two parties. The sad thing is that that is one of the two big factors each party works hard to oppose the other -- though McConnell was extreme on this. The other factor is that often there is huge disagreement on what is the right thing to do. The parties are more polarized than ever - as can be seen on any chart scoring legislators on issues. There is not only no overlap, there is a big gap in the middle. (Foreign policy is the only issue where this still is not true.)
I would argue that the Democrats can NOT just become the Democratic version of McConnell. A big difference in the parties is that we believe in government and government's ability to make the lives of people easier. They had it easier as they just have to "break" things. We all know it is far harder to make things than to break them. Our job is extremely difficult. We need to push Republicans to see that things we created could help them too.
Here, somethings will be easier than others. Most of the country has no interest in foreign policy - other than a war. If Trump's team actually sees - that even for Israel - it is better to deal with a middle east where Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, they likely will keep the deal - make a fuss (as Corker calls for) of strictly enforcing it - and if (heaven forbid) Trump gets a second term - taking credit for extending beyond 10 years - ignoring that as Kerry has spelled out innumerable times, it does not end in 10 years. Even if Trump gets "credit" for some enforcement that he and the media trumpet or he gets media credit for it not ending abruptly -- Obama and Kerry, working with 6 other countries including Iran, avoided another war in the middle east in a country stronger and more popularist than Iraq or Syria.
Other things will be much harder.
This ACA (Affordable Care Act) plan is a Heritage Foundation Plan (green lighted by a fascist republicans, written by fascists republicans in a building down on K Street, to free market capitalism in the health care industry for them to make as much money as possible with out a public option, so no competition unless its among the health care "industry" you no collusion practices), its a f***ing republican plan, what are they going to replace it with------------------
I got one its a emoji
What is really important here is that 'insurance companies could go bankrupt.' Hey, knock, knock... Notice how they say nothing about the impact to human beings being thrown off health care benefits. Sociopaths.
moderate senator for our cause." When has that ever really worked out for us? The Repuke senators always fall in line 
