A divided White House still offers little guidance on replacing Obamacare

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Washington Post

A meeting Friday afternoon between President Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his former rival in the GOP primaries, had no set agenda. But Kasich came armed with one anyway: his hope to blunt drastic changes to the nation’s health-care system envisioned by some conservatives in Washington.

Over the next 45 minutes, according to Kasich and others briefed on the session, the governor made his pitch while the president eagerly called in several top aides and then got Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on the phone. At one point, senior adviser Jared Kushner reminded his father-in-law that House Republicans are sketching out a different approach to providing access to coverage. “Well, I like this better,” Trump replied, according to a Kasich adviser.

The freewheeling session, which concluded with the president instructing Price and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to meet with Kasich the next day, underscores the un­or­tho­dox way the White House is proceeding as Republicans work to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something else. The day after Kasich delivered his impromptu tutorial, Trump spent lunch discussing the same topic with two other GOP governors with a very different vision — Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick Scott of Florida.

Scott said Sunday that he used the lunch to press for principles he has pushed publicly, such as financial compensation for states that did not expand Medicaid under the ACA and the importance of providing competition and cutting required benefits to allow people to “buy insurance that fits them.”

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The key point is that Trump does not have a plan. He wants someone else to do the heavy lifting and, if it looks okay, he will claim credit the way he did for a temporary reduction in the debt, but if it looks bad, he will blame everyone else.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Agree with your

comments on this.

Watching for Trump to make some off handed remarks countering his original statement of how he will replace ACA with a better plan. My guess is,we will see ACA gone,and we go back to the so called Universal Health Care which is code for if you get sick,tough Luck,go die some where.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It took over a year of sausage-making under the microscope

for the ACA to be brainstormed, discussed, planned, designed, drafted, crafted, revised, debated, passed, and signed into law... with multiple CBO "scorings" throughout the process to verify the cost of each of the many iterations (through to the final ones).

[TomCADem]

3. Republicans Don't Do Policy. Just Talking Points and Tax Cuts

nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Basically a lot of sound and fury

signifying nothing.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Trump Says Hell Have His Own Obamacare Replacement Plan Soon

Donald Trump Says He’ll Have His Own Obamacare ‘Replacement’ Plan Soon

01/11/2017 02:25 pm ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-replacement-plan-soon_us_58766aa3e4b092a6cae46c6f

"At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, president-elect Donald Trump said he will release his own plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act shortly after taking office. What he didn’t say is what that plan will be or how it will work."