White House Refuses To Guarantee People Wont Lose Health Insurance From Repeal

[Jimbo101]

Huffington Post

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to assure Americans on Sunday that anyone currently covered under the Affordable Care Act would not lose their coverage under President Donald Trump’s health care plan.

Sanders repeatedly dodged the question on ABC’s “This Week,” saying Trump had promised to repeal Obamacare and replace it “with something that’s better.”

Host George Stephanopoulos pressed Sanders on why, if Trump was so intent on replacing the law with something better, the White House couldn’t guarantee that everyone currently with insurance wouldn’t lose it. Sanders said it was “a goal” to make sure people didn’t lose coverage, but she stopped short of saying people would be able to keep their current insurance, or would even be offered similar plans.

“We cannot survive under the current system,” Sanders said. “We have to make a massive overhaul to the health care system in America, because it is simply just not sustainable, and everybody agrees with that.”

“There is nobody that argues that we’re on a track that we can maintain,” she continued. “So we’re looking at every possible way to do exactly that: repeal a terrible, failed system and replace with something better.”

When Stephanopoulos pressed again whether that meant Trump wouldn’t sign a replacement bill that would cause people to lose coverage, Sanders said she wouldn’t “speak specifically for the president on that topic.”

[Else You Are Mad]

1. Trump supporters do not care...

If they lose their blood pressure, diabetes, cancer etc medications and treatments so long as Trump deports all the Mexicans and Muslims from the country.

[HipChick]

2. deputy press secretary ....

Is Spicer,CONway and Miller already out?

[OldHippieChick]

3. Apparently a deputy was the

best the WH had to offer today. Chuck Todd said they asked for an admin spokesperson and the best they were offered was a deputy ps. He said no. Guess they'll have an easier time throwing a deputy under the bus and/or refuting them and/or saying they didn't understand. Cagey aren't they? (yes, that's sarcastic)

[Stuart G]

4. I don't think it will matter because it won't be repealed.

Why do I think that?....What the House of Representatives will come up with will be too radical a change. It will take only 3 Republican senators to deny passage of that..and yes, I think 3 of them will stand up at the time..
You won't hear it now, and oh...Dumpf is going to talk and tweet...but...........when the time comes, I honestly believe 3 will take a stand and this shit will stop.

[Wounded Bear]

5. What? A sliver of truthiness, there?