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Donald Trump Doesn't Know What's in his Healthcare Bill
Pushing for Vote on Health Care Bill, Trump Seems Unclear on Its Details
WASHINGTON — After two false starts on President Trump’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump administration officials are pressing the House to vote on a revised version of the Republican repeal bill this week, perhaps as soon as Wednesday, administration officials said.
And Mr. Trump insisted that the Republican health legislation would not allow discrimination against people with pre-existing medical conditions, an assertion contradicted by numerous health policy experts as well as the American Medical Association.
“Pre-existing conditions are in the bill,” the president said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “And I mandate it. I said, ‘Has to be.’”
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Mr. Trump appeared to be unfamiliar with details of the amendment that would allow states to obtain a waiver permitting insurers to charge higher premiums based on a person’s “health status.”
Nor did he explain how the Republicans’ new health plan would produce “much lower premiums.” In its analysis of the last version of the repeal bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that average premiums in 2018 and 2019 “would be 15 percent to 20 percent higher under the legislation than under current law.” By 2026, it said, average premiums would be roughly 10 percent lower than under current law.
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Trump claims he is a "details man". He is anything but. 
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I don't think it matters to his supporters. He wants to take credit for a campaign promise to repeal Obamacare What replaces it is not important to his followers. Repealing Obamacare is the only goal, and has been since the Affordable Care Act was passed.
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Just Fred wrote:
I don't think it matters to his supporters. He wants to take credit for a campaign promise to repeal Obamacare What replaces it is not important to his followers. Repealing Obamacare is the only goal, and has been since the Affordable Care Act was passed.
That is my read as well. Trump just wants to check "Repeal Obamacare" off his to do list.
He has no interest in what is actually in the bill, and in what will happen the day after.
And his supporters will be left like deer in the headlights when they cannot get care.
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I don't think it matters to his supporters. He wants to take credit for a campaign promise to repeal Obamacare What replaces it is not important to his followers. Repealing Obamacare is the only goal, and has been since the Affordable Care Act was passed.
That is my read as well. Trump just wants to check "Repeal Obamacare" off his to do list.
He has no interest in what is actually in the bill, and what will happen the day after.
And his supporters will be left like deer in the headlights when they cannot get care.
Actually IF all he wanted was a repeal, that likely could have been done. He even keeps insisting on the pre-existing conditions which is not going to sail with some hard core conservatives. He promised the world with the replacement. No way they can get all the GOP to agree on that one. Both he and the GOP, however, kept yammering about repeal AND REPLACE. That replace thing is the problem.
This governing thing really is hard !
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Bet they wish they NEVER called it OBAMAcare ! 
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