Trump Corrected by Insurers After He Claimed They're Waiving All Copayments for Coronavirus Treatmen

[babylonsister]

What a time to lie again.

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/12/trump-corrected-by-insurers-after-he-claimed-theyre-waiving-all-copayments-for-coronavirus-treatment.html

Posted on Thu, Mar 12th, 2020 by Alan Ryland
Trump Corrected by Insurers After He Claimed They’re Waiving All Copayments for Coronavirus Treatment


During an Oval Office address, President Donald Trump claimed that health insurers will “waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments,” and the industry was quick to correct him.

“Earlier this week, I met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing,” Trump told the public.

Almost immediately afterward, a spokesperson for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a leading trade association of health insurance companies, told a reporter that the president had misspoken.

“For testing. Not for treatment,” the individual told Politico reporter Sarah Owermohle.

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The president has garnered heated criticism for statements his critics say are reckless, misleading, or downright untruthful, noting that his own words sow doubt that he can successfully lead the nation through the public health crisis.

The president’s latest flub came after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially reclassified the coronavirus outbreak to a pandemic; the virus has claimed 4,749 lives worldwide according to the most recent count, including 38 in the United States alone. 1,197 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., but the figure is likely to be significantly higher due to testing shortages.

[panader0]

1. How any Repub can continue to support or have confidence

in this "man" is beyond me.

[The Genealogist]

2. Is it ignorance of the facts, habitual lying, or good old fashion chaos sowing?

This will cause a lot of headaches for the whole medical industry, as scores of Trump cultists will refuse to pay what they owe because Trump says they don't have to.

[gratuitous]

7. I'd say it's self aggrandizement

Trump can see he's taking a beating in the court of public opinion. So he tells a lie that makes him feel better. The consequences of the lie are irrelevant, because he's rarely held responsible for his lies, at least not in any meaningful way (which is why being impeached was such a nasty little shock to him).

[The Genealogist]

12. Corona virus doesn't care if he lies.

Corona virus doesn't have the capacity to care. He better find a new way to make himself feel better.

I think he has to be totally inept. If he wants adulation so despirately, what better way to get it than run an effective government assuault on a disease hat is scaring the crap out of Americans? I mean it must be scaring the crap out of a lot of people, because they are hording TP.

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. I think he has no clue what he's saying most of the time.

[The Genealogist]

14. It has been obvious all along that Trump is a weak president

However, the clustertrump that is his handling of COVID 19 health emergency has illustrated this fact like nothing before. I just imagine him spending his time away from the Twitter machine literally flailing his arms and running around the oval office like a chicken with its head cut off. He has no clue what he is doing.

[spanone]

3. When doesn't he lie?

[Mariana]

4. OMFG. This was not a "flub". It was a LIE.

"The president’s latest flub..." should read, "The president's latest lie..."

[lpbk2713]

5. Anyone whoever takes this asshole's lies seriously gets what they deserve.

If Trump's lips are moving he's lying his ass off.

[MontanaMama]

6. What's worse than insurance corporations not waiving

copayments will be the folks with higher deductibles. There’re on the hook for the cost of the test AND their copayment.

[Chainfire]

8. It makes for successful politics

Trump's loyal following heard the first part, but it is less likely they will hear the correction.

[barbtries]

9. this should make for a nice little clusterfuck

when those people who take trump's word as gospel learn the truth.

jeez

[subterranean]

10. Just like he said "Anybody who wants a test can get a test."

He just says whatever he thinks will serve him well at any particular moment. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter to him.

[LAS14]

11. Is this not one of the most consequential lies he has told??? Think of..

... the phone calls they're going to get!!!