‘A Health Care That Will Take Care of People Finally for the Right Reasons’ Trump Says. What Are the ‘Right Reasons’?
President Donald Trump took time out from an administration roundtable on state and local energy with tribal leaders and state governors and lawmakers late Tuesday morning to herald the Republican Senate’s health care bill.Â
After making remarks like, “We love Indian country right? Many of your lands have rich natural resources that stand to benefit your people immensely,” Trump launched into a two-minute advertisement for the horrific health care plan that is a massive transfer of wealth to the already-rich. Almost everything he said was false, or cherrypicked to exclude relevant and essential facts.
“Yesterday we had a tremendous meeting,” Trump told reporters at about 11:45 AM. “The Republican senators met on health care and the meeting went really well,” he said. No Democrats were invited to the table, and video of the meeting did not reveal many smiling faces.Â
“We’re talking about a great, great form of health care. Obamacare is dying, it’s essentially dead,” Trump falsely claimed, not mentioning his actions and remarks, along with the GOP’s, have destabilized it.
“It’s been a headache for everybody, it’s been a nightmare for many and we arere looking at a health care that will be a fantastic tribute to our country.” It’s also saved countless lives.
“A health care that will take care of people finally for the right reasons and also at the right cost.”
The Congressional Budget Office projects the GOP plan will kick an additional 22 million people off their coverage, including 15 million in the first year alone. It’s unclear what taking care of people “for the right reasons” means.
“It will be a tremendous reduction in cost from what Obamacare is,” Trump claimed. In fact, initially, premiums would rise before falling, but the quality and extent of coverage would also decrease dramatically.
“The Republican senators had a really impressive meeting yesterday at the White House. We had close to 50 of them,” he said. “I think we’re going to get at least very close and I think we’re going to get it over the line. There was a great feeling in that room.”
“It will be far better than Obamacare and much less expensive for the people and also much less expensive also for the country,” Trump explained, again, ignoring that tens of millions would not be covered, which actually will be more expensive for the nation overall.
“We’re working very hard, we’ve given ourselves more time to make it perfect,” he claimed, where “perfect” is defined by Senate Majority Leader essentially bribing enough Republican senators to get them to vote for the bill.
“I think this has the chance to be a great health care at a reasonable cost. People can save a lot of money,” Trump promised.
“All of the bad parts of Obamacare are gone, essentially it’s a repeal and replace,” the President boasted. Something that reduces the number of people covered does not “replace.”
Also gone would be the law requiring insurance plans to cover essential services. Among those essentials are hospitalization and emergency care, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs, lab services like blood work. And the GOP plan would remove lifetime caps, even allowing employer-based plans to do so.
“This will be something really special if we can get it done,” Trump promised. “Hopefully we’ll have it soon.”
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