GOP faces tough battle to become 'party of health care'

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Republicans face an uphill battle in their bid to fulfill President Trump's prophecy that the GOP will become "the party of health care."

The presidential directive, handed down in a tweet on Tuesday, came at an inopportune time for Republicans, less than a day after the Trump administration called for the courts to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its entirety.

Taken together, that announcement and Trump’s ambitious call to resurface a campaign promise that has eluded Republicans for years underscores the political peril facing the GOP in 2020, as well as the long road the party faces if it hopes to, in fact, become “the party of health care.”

“People already believe that Republicans have the wrong approach to health care,” Doug Thornell, a longtime Democratic strategist and adviser, said. “When the White House makes the kind of announcement it just did, it reinforces that.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/436371-gop-faces-tough-battle-to-become-party-of-health-care?userid=229233

They are and will likely always be nothing more than the party of wealthcare.

[SayItLoud]

1. Keep this STUCK to the Repubics. ; Let them try during every interview

to defend how they are the "party of health care". Ask every person interviewed to explain their plan. Don't let up. Brand them with this and 2020 will bring WH, Senate into Dem control. The rePUKicans are "the party of who cares?" .

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2. "Mr. Scuba Diver, I'm going to take away your oxygen tank, ok?"

"But believe me, you'll have something much better as soon as we get around to it! Cheaper oxygen! Massive oxygen! The most beautiful oxygen! The Republicans will be known as the party of oxygen!"

[Perrenial Voter]

3. There are a few things they could do that would fall within in

"conservative" principles, but I'm not sure they adhere to those any more:

1) Enforce the anti-trust laws against pharmaceutical companies, so that there would be more than one supplier of each generic drug, so that competition would bring down the price.

2) Reduce the period of time in which pharmaceutical companies have a monopoly on drugs they introduce.

3) Allow free flow of drugs across the border, so that Americans can pay the same price as everyone else.

4) Most malpractice lawsuits are directed at a handful of careless doctors who are "repeat offenders." They should be barred from practicing medicine to bring insurance costs down.

5) Allow patients to purchase drugs directly from pharmacies without a prescription, unless they are addictive or commonly abused. They do this in most of Latin America and it makes huge difference to people who cannot afford to go to doctors.

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4. Stop that in its tracks easily enough

Where's the Republican replacement plan? You've been complaining about the Affordable Care Act since before it was enacted without ONE Republican vote. You've promising repeal without a replacement since the Act was passed. You've had YEARS to come up with an alternative, and the American people haven't seen diddly-squat out of you whiners. You haven't put up, so why don't you shut up (h/t to Rep. Mullin, R-OK)?

[Freddie]

6. They had no plan to ever have a "replacement"

They want the “good old days” back - pre-existing conditions and being utterly dependent on your employer to offer you any kind of insurance and you’re damn lucky to have it. Unemployed or self-employed and can’t get or afford a private plan? Poor you.

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5. Scott Walker

And WI Rethugs tried to do this, nobody beleived them. This will be the case nationally.

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7. Their plan is a-l-m-o-s-t ready

Their plan is a-l-m-o-s-t ready

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/trump-reportedly-insists-healthcare-replacement-will-have-insurance-for-everybody.html


January 16, 2017 Fox News

President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he’s almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have “insurance for everybody."

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The president-elect insisted that his plan for replacing the Affordable Healthcare Act is all but finished, and added that care would have “lower numbers, much lower deductibles.” He went as far to say that he’s ready to reveal it alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.