Trump promises his Obamacare replacement plan will cover all: Report

[spanone]

(CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on an Obamacare replacement plan that aims to provide "insurance for all," he told the Washington Post.

Also, he will demand that drug companies negotiate directly with Medicare and Medicaid and lower their prices, saying they will no longer be "politically protected."

Trump's weekend interview with the Washington Post comes just after Congress took its first steps to dismantle President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform law. The House on Friday followed the Senate in approving a budget resolution that would repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act. Committees in both chambers will now work out the details of repealing and replacing the law.

However, after nearly seven years of vowing to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are fracturing over how to do actually go about doing it. Some want to slow down the repeal effort until a replacement plan is unveiled. Others, including Trump, want to take action more quickly.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/index.html

[Hugin]

1. And if we clap harder...

Ponies! Ponies for everyone!

[HassleCat]

2. Please! A pony? I am insulted!

I expect a unicorn!

[SticksnStones]

4. So much shit being shoveled ... there's got to be a pony somewhere

[HassleCat]

5. That's the advantage with a unicorn.

You can see the horn protruding from the manure.

[SticksnStones]

7. True...and besides unicorn poop is all blue and sparkly

So you don't mind the shoveling as much

[KittyWampus]

17. Unicorns make rainbow shiny manure though.

[Hugin]

14. Tough. No pony for you!

[hedda_foil]

3. So basically he's got plenty of nothing.b

He'll blame Ryan a nd the Turtle for that. Reichstag Fire coming our way in 3-2-1----

[roamer65]

6. Sure, we will all have insurance.

But there will almost no hospitals left in business or that will accept it after it is implemented.

They are going to have to cut its reimbursement rates drastically to make it "affordable".

[spanone]

8. $10,000 deductable

[roamer65]

9. Yup it's either crap reimbursement or high deductibles.

Without the ACA, it's picking a poison.

The end result will be hospital and clinic closures, along with $9 trillion added to the national debt.

The genocidal result will be hundred of thousands who die from it.

[flamingdem]

10. Sure it will cover all if you can afford it

and if not you might get a junk plan.

It's not whether you have it really it's whether it's worth a damn.

And if you're low income it's not fun to be thrown onto Medicaid when you could have had an excellent Silver Plan, especially if it will be overwhelmed.

[Jim Beard]

11. Its going to be coverage like a net is for an umbrella.

[Hoyt]

12. It may be BS, but it's better he's "promising" it than saying he's against negotiations and

universal health insurance. No I don't believe it will happen, but that's a promise he'll have to deliver on soon or admit failure.

[TeamPooka]

13. Congress passes laws, not the President. Someone tell Trump to have Paul Ryan say it

[spanone]

15. total bullshit...i don't believe a thing that comes out of his mouth

and i doubt that he knows congress passes laws....he's the king

[KittyWampus]

16. So? What he says doesn't matter. Except to gull the gullible.