Healthcare & Health Insurance Catch-All | GOP seeking a plan

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05C40 said:
Just skimmed the article, but did St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago mention anything about "soon" being two weeks? Apparently, St. Donald's minions have done extensive research on the attention span of "the base." Seems the result of this research was "two weeks."
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For Trump’s base it’s more like two minutes. Excepts for trans people, who seem to be permanently lodged in their frontal cortexes.
 


“… “I’m calling on Congress to pass this framework into law without delay, have to do it right now, so that we can get immediate relief to the American people,” Trump said in a video posted by the White House.

The administration released no legislative text nor timeline for related congressional action and did not indicate whether Republican leaders support the proposal, even as health care costs loom as a central issue in this year’s closely contested midterm elections. Asked how the proposal would advance in Congress, administration officials said it was a “broad architecture” intended to guide lawmakers on next steps.

… Trump’s proposal includes a mix of initiatives that are already underway, such as Trump’s push to cut U.S. drug prices by linking them with the lower cost of drugs sold abroad, and some of his stalled ambitions, such as his desire to redirect billions of dollars in federal funding away from health insurers and toward average Americans. Trump also called to restore funding for the ACA’s cost-sharing reduction program, an insurance subsidy program that he ended in his first term, and to institute “maximum price transparency” by requiring hospitals and insurers to make more information available to consumers.

The proposal does not include new ideas to expand health coverage or simplify America’s often-byzantine health care system. It also falls far short of Trump’s promises to deliver a replacement for the ACA, the sweeping 2010 health law that has been credited with helping more than 20 million Americans get health coverage and has long been targeted for repeal by Trump and his GOP allies. Republican leaders have refused to extend an ACA subsidy program that expired in December, with Democrats pushing to restore that program as a way to lower health care costs and reduce instability in insurance markets.…”
 
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“… “I’m calling on Congress to pass this framework into law without delay, have to do it right now, so that we can get immediate relief to the American people,” Trump said in a video posted by the White House.

The administration released no legislative text nor timeline for related congressional action and did not indicate whether Republican leaders support the proposal, even as health care costs loom as a central issue in this year’s closely contested midterm elections. Asked how the proposal would advance in Congress, administration officials said it was a “broad architecture” intended to guide lawmakers on next steps.

… Trump’s proposal includes a mix of initiatives that are already underway, such as Trump’s push to cut U.S. drug prices by linking them with the lower cost of drugs sold abroad, and some of his stalled ambitions, such as his desire to redirect billions of dollars in federal funding away from health insurers and toward average Americans. Trump also called to restore funding for the ACA’s cost-sharing reduction program, an insurance subsidy program that he ended in his first term, and to institute “maximum price transparency” by requiring hospitals and insurers to make more information available to consumers.

The proposal does not include new ideas to expand health coverage or simplify America’s often-byzantine health care system. It also falls far short of Trump’s promises to deliver a replacement for the ACA, the sweeping 2010 health law that has been credited with helping more than 20 million Americans get health coverage and has long been targeted for repeal by Trump and his GOP allies. Republican leaders have refused to extend an ACA subsidy program that expired in December, with Democrats pushing to restore that program as a way to lower health care costs and reduce instability in insurance markets.…”
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BTW, Trump is soooooooo excited about this announcement that he ran out and posted absolutely nothing about it on Truth Social so far today.
 

Trump’s health care plan excludes those with preexisting conditions​



“… The White House says the plan is a framework for Congress to create legislation.

… Critics of Trump’s proposal say the framework is incomplete and does not account for people with preexisting conditions, a caveat White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday.

“The president’s plan that he outlined today will have no impact on individuals in this country with preexisting conditions. Obviously, that’s a continued conversation that the White House will have with Congress, but that’s not the president’s intention with the ‘Great Healthcare Plan,'” Leavitt told reporters….”

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It is a half-assed list of concepts, packaged as a plan but apparently mainly a political risk-shifting exercise to put the onus on Congress to figure it out.
 
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This "plan" is pretty clearly just cover-your-ass PR designed to throw the blame and responsibility back on Congress (including Congressional Republicans) to actually come up with something specific. There's no real details or specifics in the plan - if it was adopted "as is" our entire healthcare system would likely collapse in a matter of months, if not weeks. Trump 2.0 doesn't want to take the blame for soaring premiums and a system that is failing at an increasing rate, so he's just dumping it back on Congress. Which means that nothing will get done and ACA subsidies will continue to lapse and the system will continue to fail by stages.
 
nycfan said:


“… “I’m calling on Congress to pass this framework into law without delay, have to do it right now, so that we can get immediate relief to the American people,” Trump said in a video posted by the White House.

The administration released no legislative text nor timeline for related congressional action and did not indicate whether Republican leaders support the proposal, even as health care costs loom as a central issue in this year’s closely contested midterm elections. Asked how the proposal would advance in Congress, administration officials said it was a “broad architecture” intended to guide lawmakers on next steps.

… Trump’s proposal includes a mix of initiatives that are already underway, such as Trump’s push to cut U.S. drug prices by linking them with the lower cost of drugs sold abroad, and some of his stalled ambitions, such as his desire to redirect billions of dollars in federal funding away from health insurers and toward average Americans. Trump also called to restore funding for the ACA’s cost-sharing reduction program, an insurance subsidy program that he ended in his first term, and to institute “maximum price transparency” by requiring hospitals and insurers to make more information available to consumers.

The proposal does not include new ideas to expand health coverage or simplify America’s often-byzantine health care system. It also falls far short of Trump’s promises to deliver a replacement for the ACA, the sweeping 2010 health law that has been credited with helping more than 20 million Americans get health coverage and has long been targeted for repeal by Trump and his GOP allies. Republican leaders have refused to extend an ACA subsidy program that expired in December, with Democrats pushing to restore that program as a way to lower health care costs and reduce instability in insurance markets.…”
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Mulberry Heel said:
This "plan" is pretty clearly just cover-your-ass PR designed to throw the blame and responsibility back on Congress (including Congressional Republicans) to actually come up with something specific. There's no real details or specifics in the plan - if it was adopted "as is" our entire healthcare system would likely collapse in a matter of months, if not weeks. Trump 2.0 doesn't want to take the blame for soaring premiums and a system that is failing at an increasing rate, so he's just dumping it back on Congress. Which means that nothing will get done and ACA subsidies will continue to lapse and the system will continue to fail by stages.
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Republicans don’t have a fucking clue what to do with health care other than say the ACA was bad because Obama did. Totally fucking useless all of them.
 
HandsonFire said:
Republicans don’t have a fucking clue what to do with health care other than say the ACA was bad because Obama did. Totally fucking useless all of them.
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The problem for Pubs is that they know that the only real priority they have - that the government not put any money into insurance for Americans - will cost them at the polls and so they can't move forward with that priority in any real way.

Everything else is them trying to look like they're doing something while they avoid taking any actual steps on the problem.
 
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