NBC News - Trump's Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises

[TomCADem]

Consider that the CBO, which is headed by a person appointed by the WH's Budget Director, came out with worse coverage numbers (24 million losing their insurance) then the early estimate given by the left of center Brookings Institution (15 million).

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-backing-a-healthcare-plan-that-breaks-his-promises/ar-AAojptD

President Donald Trump rode to the White House making big promises on health care — pledges that he is now in serious danger of breaking. Let's look at how the president's words on the campaign trail stack up against what we know today.

In addition to Trump's comments on the stump, his administration has spent weeks raising expectations on its Obamacare replacement. Among the claims: The Republican plan would cover more people, reduce their premiums and costs, avoid cutting Medicaid, and leave no one worse off than under the former president's signature achievement.

So now that the House GOP's American Health Care Act (AHCA) is here, how do these pledges look?

Not good, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released on Monday. The report found the House plan — which the Trump administration has thrown its support behind — would cause millions to lose insurance and raise costs for vulnerable populations.

[marybourg]

1. He DonTCare. nt

[still_one]

2. WHAT!!! You mean trump LIED!!!

[gratuitous]

3. Insurance for everybody

I want to billboard that one like "If you like your health insurance, you can keep it." But in Trump's case, he broke his solemn promise to the American people not because of any Democratic lawsuit shenanigans,* but he did it prospectively, before a bill even got out of a congressional committee.

*Republicans like to remember President Obama's promise, but they also like to forget that the Affordable Care Act had a meat ax taken to it by Republicans who sued to get the states out of Medicaid expansion (What state would turn down free money from the federal government to provide better health care for its citizens? Surprisingly, quit a few, each and every one of them controlled by Republicans.), and who further sued to discover a whole new constitutional right for corporations, whose "right" to practice their corporation religion (Who knew corporations practiced religion?) superseded the rights of citizens to full insurance coverage for anything those corporations found religiously objectionable?