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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Apr 3, 2019, 09:25 PM Apr 2019

Trump's 2020 Platform: A Magical Healthcare Plan That Doesn't Exist

Days before the 2018 midterm elections, President Trump promised that he was preparing to pass a big tax cut for the middle class. Republican lawmakers were “studying very deeply, round the clock” to work out the details of the package, he said, and a vote would be imminent. No one seemed to know what Trump was talking about, and no such tax cut was ever passed. Maybe next time!

Trump now appears to be working up a similar ploy in regard to healthcare.

Last week, the Justice Department came out in support of litigation brought by the attorneys general of several Republican-controlled states that would effectively strike down the Affordable Care Act. Trump was delighted, tweeting in response that the “Republican Party will become the Party of Great HealthCare!” while bashing the ACA, also known as Obamacare. He soon began touting a new Republican healthcare plan that was allegedly being developed.

But on Tuesday, the New York Times reported that no such effort was underway, nor would it be until after the 2020 election. “I pointed out to him the Senate Republicans’ view on dealing with comprehensive healthcare reform with a Democratic House of Representatives,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told the Times of his conversations with Trump, adding that he “made it clear to him that we were not going to be doing that in the Senate.”

Nevertheless, Trump continued to promise that a Republican plan is in the works while speaking at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser Tuesday night. “We’re going to come up with a healthcare plan. We’re not going to vote on it until after the election. We’ll all promise it’s going to be our first vote. We blew it last time. Some of you… I’m still a little bit angry, but not all of you. It wasn’t even your fault. We should have done it when we had the position. We’re going to get it back, and it’s going to be a better plan. We’re going to give a great healthcare plan, and we’re going to campaign on that plan. It’s going to be much less expensive than Obamacare and much more usable in terms of deductibles.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-2020-platform-817163/

It'll be distributed by unicorns who will fart rainbows on you and make you feel better.

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Trump's 2020 Platform: A Magical Healthcare Plan That Doesn't Exist (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
Someone can do a study of just how stupid MAGATs can get. world wide wally Apr 2019 #1
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