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This is Donald Trump's plan for replacing Obamacare. (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP
he speaks to the stupid masses via twitter... history books will be like WTH was wrong with people!? boston bean Sep 2016 #1
Now who can argue with that? pinboy3niner Sep 2016 #2
Yes I know. His plan will be the best/the greatest thing ever, right? Stellar Sep 2016 #3
Ali, however, had a track record to back it up muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 #4
You are correct of course... Stellar Sep 2016 #5
Ali went on to kick some serious badasses. Jerry442 Sep 2016 #6

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
3. Yes I know. His plan will be the best/the greatest thing ever, right?
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:23 AM
Sep 2016

Trump keep reminding me of Ali. "I Am the greatest of all times!!!

muriel_volestrangler

(101,306 posts)
4. Ali, however, had a track record to back it up
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:37 AM
Sep 2016

He could make a case for really being 'the greatest'. Trump 'plans', however, don't exist. When he says something, it almost always contradicts something else he's said. On the topic of Obamacare:

Speaking on “The Dr. Oz Show,” Trump said Medicaid, the joint federal-state program for the poor, should be used to help provide health coverage for those who can’t afford to buy plans from private health insurers. The show was taped Wednesday and aired Thursday.

“We have to help them through the Medicaid system,” Trump told Mehmet Oz, the host of a popular daytime television show and a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center. “People have said that’s not the right thing to say. But there is a fairly large percentage who can’t afford it.”
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Trump has previously called for repealing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which gave states the option to expand Medicaid to higher income levels, as 31 states have done already. On his website, he calls for turning the program into a grant given to states, letting them manage the program as they see fit. His campaign site also says states offer Medicaid benefits that are too generous.

“Nearly every state already offers benefits beyond what is required in the current Medicaid structure,” according to the site. Under his plan, “states will have the incentives to seek out and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse to preserve our precious resources,” Trump writes.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-15/trump-calls-for-expanded-medicaid-birth-control-without-doctor

"preserve our precious resources" - do I sense Trump's inner Gen. Jack D. Ripper coming through?

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
5. You are correct of course...
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 11:46 AM
Sep 2016

but these days I watch very little of anything to do with Trumpocracy and his traveling Reality clown show. He want the media to always follow him on Dr. Oz, for what that was worth. Hillary's exam wasn't on TV (I guess to make it appear as though she was hiding something, and now
Donald Trump's 'major statement' on the birther issue DailyKos

Trump just bought me back to the 60's when this brash young Cassius 'the precious' Clay used to talk about how great he was...and 'Clay' would shout "I am the greatest of all times!!" And most of us knew nothing to very little about him. But that's where the similarity ends.

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