Why Trump can't sell health reform, and the price he'll pay

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In the six months since taking office, Donald Trump has turned the presidency, an institution Theodore Roosevelt once referred to as a “bully pulpit,” into a different kind of pulpit. It begins with B-U-L-L, but that’s where the similarity ends.

During the campaign, Trump promised to keep his hands off Medicaid ands other entitlements, out of concern for struggling families seeking health care coverage. He would make good on the Republicans’ seven-year long promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act within a matter of months.

Then in January, he flatly promised “insurance for everybody” as part of his health care reforms, and vowed to force unscrupulous drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices. Trumpcare would cover more people than Obamacare and cost a lot less in terms of premiums and out-of-pocket costs. People with pre-existing medical problems won’t lose their coverage or be forced to pay a lot more for their coverage. The mentally ill won’t get the short-shrift in a revised health care plan.

And, most importantly, he insisted, “People aren't going to be dying on the sidewalks and in the street.”

Over the weeks and months since he took office, there has been a slow but sure deterioration in both Trump’s approval numbers and in the public’s trust in its highest elected official. That is due, in no small part, to the fact that many of those promises Trump made turned out to be false.

He’s supporting a plan that doesn’t just “touch” Medicaid -- it grabs hold of it and wrings billions of dollars out of it to be spent on tax cuts for the wealthy. “Insurance for everybody?” Not even close. And if you have a pre-existing condition? Even the insurance industry concedes that you’re in big trouble under the plan Trump is backing.

Now nearly six months into his administration, Trump and his allies are paying the price.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/healthcare/why-trump-cant-sell-health-reform-and-the-price-hell-pay/ar-BBEFj5V?li=BBnbfcN&ocid=edgsp

[dalton99a]

1. Repealing Obamacare Is Going to Be 'So Easy'

[Wellstone ruled]

2. The damage is yet to come.

We are seeing it being laid today. No payments to Insurance Carriers which will see Companies pulling out of expensive markets,next is defunding of Medicaid in order to transfer that money to the Wealthiest 400 families as planned.

This is just the start of the War on the Middle Class sponsored by the Koch's,Mercer's and the Walton's.

[Moral Compass]

3. It was never about health reform

Let's start by having some precision in language. This was never about any reform. It was always about de facto repeal and cutting the taxes of the wealthiest among us.

Because of that central fact there was never any way to do much beyond stand alone repeal with a bit of window dressing, lipstick for the pig, and a dash of sleight of hand.

The Republicans, behind closed doors and working only with 13 members of the He-Man Woman Haters club came up with something that beggars the name atrocity. The biggest (and best thing in Republican eyes) thing it did was essentially start the process of defunding and dismantling Medicaid. Paul Ryan has had a woodie for destroying Medicaid since he was a Young Republican in college.

This was never about "reform" it was all about destroying a hated social program that helps the undeserving masses of "takers".

We need to call these authors and media outlets about using the Republican Orwellian language where right is wrong and freedom means the freedom to die.