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A spokesman for Donald Trump sought Monday to elaborate on the president-elects plans to replace the Affordable Care Act, vowing that the new administration would lower health-care costs by infusing more competition into the marketplace.
Trumps goal is to get insurance for everybody through marketplace solutions, through bringing costs down, through negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, allowing competition over state lines," Sean Spicer, the incoming White House press secretary, said during an interview on NBCs Today show.
Spicers comments followed a weekend interview with The Washington Post in which Trump said that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obamas signature health-care law with the goal of insurance for everybody, while also promising to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump declined to provide specifics during the weekend interview and Spicer offered few details either. But he reiterated the principles driving Trumps plan, which the president-elect said this weekend is down to the final strokes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/16/trump-spokesman-says-obamacare-replacement-will-harness-marketplace-competition/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na&utm_term=.3f1738b25358#comments
Yes his goal is to get insurance for everyone not require insurance for everyone. Always listen for the semantics.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)on steroids.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)yardwork
(61,690 posts)louis-t
(23,296 posts)A lot. Signed, Donnie dum dum, deal maker.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)and there goes your money.
FREEDOM!
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)For healthcare. How would it ever be possible to shop around for critical care?
This is madness. This is a cynical non solution to the most serious problem that society faces. What leverage do does anyone including the federal government run by republicans have to do anything at all about the cost of healthcare in this open market?
librechik
(30,676 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)moondust
(20,002 posts)Health care is not a widget. MRIs are not widgets. Not even slightly realistic to think "customers" will increase competition and control prices by shopping around for best prices on emergency procedures or long-term treatments that may develop complications after the treatment has started. Even if they could, would anybody really want their health care providers to start cutting corners to save money so they can lower their prices and/or increase profits?
If Tom Price is on board with this nonsense then perhaps he is actually more a medical profiteer than a doctor.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Tom Price is and always was a concierge doctor to the rich in his well to do North Fulton congressional district.
He was/is an orthopedic doctor treating sports injuries and hasn't practiced medicine in years and years.
yardwork
(61,690 posts)Ilsa
(61,696 posts)Companies buy each other up, or collude on increasing prices and denying benefits.In the meantime, regulation will all but disappear. "Let the buyer beware" will be the new way of doing business with them. It is doomed to waste and failure.
Johonny
(20,872 posts)Without ACA the marketplace solution can't, doesn't, won't work so anything he attempts will be a failure.