Trump Pushes Obamacare To Detonation, Forges Path Away From GOP, Democrats

[Dulcinea]

Back in March, after the first Republican legislative failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, during the Trump presidency, President Trump went before cameras in the Oval Office and revealed some of his thinking when it comes to the politics of health care.

"I've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode," Trump said. "It is exploding right now."

Experts said that the ACA wasn't "exploding" but that it needed fixes to help incentivize insurers to stay in marketplaces.

But now, six months later, Obamacare may actually be on the road to "exploding" — catalyzed by an accelerant poured over it by Trump. The moves he has taken risk blowing up the individual markets by making insurance too expensive for lower- and middle-class families. Trump's actions, however, could backfire politically, threatening to shift blame for the health care act's shortcomings from former President Barack Obama and Democrats to Trump and Republicans.

That is something Republicans have feared and now believe will happen.

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557696760/trump-pushes-obamacare-to-detonation-forges-path-away-from-gop-democrats

[Timmygoat]

1. Please

Please call it Trumpcare now, he has changed it so now it has to be Trumpcare, what will he think to the new name? I cannot wait.

[Dulcinea]

2. Agreed. eom

[Timmygoat]

3. Well how about that

Trump just said there is no Obamacare any more, per my first post - let us all call it Trumpcare.

[BigmanPigman]

4. The people that voted for him voted for his personality and promise to

"shake things up" not his stand on issues and policies. That could easily happen again. Americans have short memories and often vote with their emotions and not their brains so don't expect the Hellcare issue to effect his future voters' opinions too much.