Trump: Don't Worry! O'care Will 'Explode,' We Will Pick Up The Pieces

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By KRISTIN SALAKY Published MARCH 25, 2017, 10:59 AM EDT

President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday for the first time about the Republicans' failure to bring their health care bill up for a vote in the House, telling Americans not to worry but that Obamacare would "explode."

Link to tweet

The tweet echoes what Trump has said about the Affordable Care Act in the past, often remarking in the process of trying to pass the American Health Care Act that the Republicans were doing Democrats a favor and maybe should just let Obamacare "implode" and make Democrats "own it."

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[Blue Idaho]

1. Republicans own the healthcare issue...

Republicans control both houses of congress and the Presidency. Anything that happens now - including the failure of Obamacare is their responsibility.

[madokie]

14. The few things that are wrong with the ACA

they own too. it was them who made it possible that the bill pass as it is now.

[Tanuki]

19. Very true. The GOP did everything they could to undermine it,

limit access, reduce efficiency and affordability, and try to turn people against it. In spite of all this, tens of millions more people now have healthcare, medical bankruptcies have declined, and the ACA is more popular than ever. I was pleased to read in another thread that even the GOP Kansas legislature is now trying to expand Medicaid under the ACA.

[not fooled]

25. And just imagine

if the GOPee and Faux, flush, etc. hadn't spent years demonizing and lying about the ACA to their dimwitted followers. Without that propaganda, the ACA would be even more popular. Which, of course, is what the kochroaches and their ilk don't want--we can't have the gubmint helping people, now, can we?

I hope that it's finally dawning on 'Muricans which party is actually for the average working American, not the oligarchs.

[Yo_Mama]

33. The bill was passed without one Republican vote. So we do own it.

There are problems with it. We'll have to wait and see how this works out.

There are areas in which it is working pretty well, but more rural areas/states are running into some bad problems.

[madokie]

34. If the republiCONs

would have made any attempt to work with the dems on this bill it would be the cats meow today. They chose to not and we all suffer because of that.
Yes we own it and I'm proud of that ownership but it needs tweeked. It needs a public option at the very least.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. But first they'll fart The Star-Spangled Banner

[mdbl]

24. ROFL!

[Coventina]

3. Because that's what great presidents do: watch things explode.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It's that national anthem feeling

Those rockets' red glare and bombs bursting in air...

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Republicans can never accept they might be wrong about something

TrumpCare is DOA and you can't fool the people.

Donald, resign. You're embarrassing yourself.

[progree]

5. Trump - you just had a great opportunity to piece together a great health plan

... precisely, exactly who do you think you are fooling now, you sick fuck?

[LOL Lib]

28. So true,

you know what really bugs me? That over 70k people liked his dumb tweet!

They really are cult followers who will eat any shit sandwich little donnie the truck driver shoves down their throats. Those people cannot be reached or fixed and that is frightening.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Trumpcare (the ACA is Trump's now)

will explode because Donnie and his merry band of robber barons are going to see to it that it is gutted on the regulatory level.......just like he has done with the State Department.

Time for the Democrats to begin offering ways to fix Trumpcare (take it back from Trump) or start making sure that the steps taken by Trump to destroy people's insurance is well known.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. NO. tRump does NOT own ACA. Trumpcare is NOT the ACA.

Republicons will try to silently sabotage ObamaCare but they do not "own" ObamaCare.

Trump and the Republicons own "Repeal / Replace" and any efforts they make to sabotage ObamaCare.

Framing of issues is important. Republicons would love to own the parts of ObamaCare that everyone loves so please do not deal them that hand.

[Xipe Totec]

7. So says the Pinata Of The United States. nt

[Girard442]

8. A fable:

Once upon a time there was a school that had a lot of students that needed rides to school, so the school board bought a bunch of schoolbuses. Everybody complained about the buses -- they were too expensive, the routes weren't good, people whose kids were in walking distance had to pay too, et cetera, et cetera.

So, a new slate of candidates ran for office, promising to get much better schoolbuses for much less money. They got in and the first thing they did was to set up a way to dump the old buses and bring in the much cheaper but spiffier new ones that were guaranteed to please everyone.

But then...they discovered that the old school board had cut a much better deal than anyone had realized and there weren't actually any possibilities for saving money that didn't leave a whole big bunch of students stranded. They tried to get approval for one plan that would let the poorer students just hoof it, figuring that they needed the exercise and didn't really want to ride the schoolbus anyway.

After that plan didn't fly, they fell back on an even better one: they'd keep the old schoolbus fleet but stop maintaining it. Sooner or later, the buses would become less and less reliable, and if they were really lucky, a bus would crash spectacularly and kill a bunch of kids. In the resulting crisis atmosphere of grief and shock, they could do anything they want. They could even blame the whole debacle on the previous school board.

No normal human being would think like that. Right?

[oberliner]

11. Nice job

That was a well-crafted analogy.

[SCVDem]

12. At the end of the tale

I thought of the Reichstag fire.

[not fooled]

26. When you're a party of sociopaths

people are just pawns to be manipulated and used in games of enrichment.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Republicans will try to silently sabotage OCare like Rubio's work previously:

The Real Reason Obamacare Premiums have gone up so much: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028846942

[cstanleytech]

15. Yup its the Repugnant way especially when they dont get their own way in the first place. nt

[dhill926]

13. just shut the fuck up already....

asshole...

[Tanuki]

16. A "great healthcare plan" is not something a bunch of ignorant ideologues can "piece together."

If Trump were capable of coming up with a comprehensive plan that provided better health outcomes at a lower price he could have done so. He didn't even bother to try. He is incompetent and relied on a pack of jackals dedicated to an Ayn Rand dystopia, who themselves failed at the one project they had been yammering about for the past 8 years. This was the latest in 60-plus failed votes to destroy our healthcare. They stand fully exposed as completely incapable of the task of governing and securing healthy future for our citizens.

[Sunlei]

31. Even President Obama offered to help Trump improve/tweak ACA if it benefited Americans.

He'd let Donald take full credit for positive tweaks, but Trumps Republican "betters" would never let Mr. Trump call the 'real shots' in Washingtondc.

[truthisfreedom]

17. Saboteur in chief.

[MBS]

18. " " " n/t

[George II]

20. Hey donnie: Отмена и замена не работали*

*Repeal and replace didn't work!

[llmart]

22. Spoken like a true con man...

All con men say "Do not worry."

[0rganism]

23. vultures

[Siwsan]

27. As long as they smell a profit, the GOP doesn't care how many people they harm or kill

They are vile.

[tonekat]

29. Watch for Benign Neglect

To insure they don't screw up the ACA by "benign neglect", as it is, it's underfunded.

[Sunlei]

30. don't think Americas first responders to uninsured emergencies will like t(R)umpimplode disaster.

The naloxone (spelling) drug to reverse overdoses, alone breaks the bank of many small American towns.

Drug Corps charge about $100 each pre-loaded dose and reports from EMT I know is it can take 3 or 4 'doses' to reverse an overdose.

[Kablooie]

32. To Republicans the disaster of the ACA is that it raises taxes on the rich.

That's the only part they really want to change.