Trump preparing executive orders on health care this week

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump is planning to announce a series of executive actions on health care as soon as Thursday, as he tries to shore up his record on an issue that’s been a drag on his reelection effort.

One of the executive actions could include a promised order meant to safeguard insurance protections for pre-existing conditions should the Supreme Court undercut Obamacare, according to seven people familiar with the discussions, including three administration sources. Other executive actions under consideration include efforts to prevent patients from receiving “surprise” medical bills and an effort to address mental health.

The details of the announcement are still in flux, the sources stressed. The moves could come as a comprehensive package or a series of individual orders. The plan is for Trump to make the announcements during an event Thursday afternoon in North Carolina where the focus is health care.

Trump over the past two months has promised a replacement plan for Obamacare that hasn’t materialized, even as his administration urges the Supreme Court to overturn the health care law in a case the justices are scheduled to hear a week after Election Day. Trump and Republicans, particularly senators in tough reelection races, are facing renewed urgency to explain how they would protect popular insurance protections after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg increased the odds the Supreme Court could invalidate Obamacare — or at least significant portions of the law. Trump is pushing hard to get his eventual nominee on the court by the time the court hears oral arguments.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-preparing-executive-orders-health-185555240.html

This is his healthcare plan?

[Merlot]

1. What good is safeguarding pre-existing conditions if you can't afford the insurance?

[madaboutharry]

2. That doesn't sound like a plan.

That sounds like a mess. He wants to get rid of Obama care because “Obama.”

[BannonsLiver]

3. This is a layup for Biden in the first debate and beyond

“Executive orders aren’t a healthcare plan...” and so on.

[Captain Zero]

7. Right EOs that can be pulled back by unprincipled GOP

Whenever they want. This is political posturing for the election only.

Can't select a SC justice in an election year. Right.
Pre-existing conditions are safe. Yeah, right.

[msongs]

4. one thinks money issues are reserved to the house not the executive nt

[RDANGELO]

5. The executive actions will have no leagal standing.

It needs to be passed thru congress. The health insurance companies and everyone else will ignore them.

[rpannier]

6. increased the odds the Supreme Court could invalidate Obamacare

He is President of the United States. He could...ohhhhhhhhhh...I don't know... choose someone for the Court who won't vote to get rid of it
It's not that difficult a proposition

[TeamPooka]

8. EA's are not laws.

[BGBD]

9. Requiring insurance

cover pre-existing conditions without also requiring universal buy-in is a surefire way to cause the insurance industry to collapse.

It just means that nobody needs to buy insurance until they are already sick. If you have an individual mandate, it serves two purposes. It provides a base of younger and healthier participants that don't require much payout and it ensures that nobody can just avoid insurance until they get sick and then go out and buy it.

You also can't do this by executive order. Something as large and complicated as healthcare needs to be codified as law so that everyone knows what to expect.

[genxlib]

13. This 1000%

Except there is an additional factor between those two issues and that is cost control.

Protections for existing conditions are meaningless if the industry is allowed to charge you anything they want.

Along those lines, the people couldn’t get insurance after getting sick if the cost could go up accordingly. Sure the industry could be required to cover you but without cost control, that coverage could be pegged at 1,000,000 per month.

The entire plan was an intricate structure that depended on all the clauses to work. You can’t remove the unpleasant bits and still expect it to work.

[BGBD]

14. yes

absolutely true.

[pfitz59]

10. Trump isn't "preparing" anything

The stupid, lazy bastard will just read from whatever his goons gen up. And an EO is not law. So he can fuck off

[DSandra]

11. Trump has been preparing something for over four years...

Much like the Dale and the Elio...

[Boogiemack]

12. It's all for show and won't mean a thing and most thinking people will know it.

It's and Executive Order that will be meaningless thanks to the slashing already done to the ACA by the GOP.