Trump’s claim that he ‘saved’ pre-ex conditions ‘part fantasy, part delusion’

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Trump’s pre-ex claim ‘part fantasty, part delusion'
Trump tweeted that he "was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your healthcare."

The president had nothing to do with the ban on health insurance plans discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. This consumer protection is a core part of the health care law that became law during the Obama presidency. Trump has expressly supported the repeal of this law without offering a replacement that would keep the protection intact.

And to this day, his administration is arguing in court that the law – including this provision – should be undone.

The president’s tweet is not only untrue, but it misrepresents his administration’s efforts to repeal the health care law without offering any replacement that might maintain its core protections. We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
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Should I believe all that or hold off until later?
I guess that depends on if you have proof of where the article is wrong? If you have proof it would be interesting to see the links. :wave:
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I guess that depends on if you have proof of where the article is wrong? If you have proof it would be interesting to see the links. :wave:
tulc(always likes to see proof for things)

They go on and on about preexisting conditions but then only mention Obamacare. A repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for preexisting conditions. Just as a repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for reconstructive surgery in the case of mastectomy.

Even though I oppose any requirement for coverage for preexisting conditions. That's like buying car insurance after you've been in an accident.
 
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They go on and on about preexisting conditions but then only mention Obamacare. A repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for preexisting conditions. Just as a repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for reconstructive surgery in the case of mastectomy.

Even though I oppose any requirement for coverage for preexisting conditions. That's like buying car insurance after you've been in an accident.
So...that would be a "No, I don't have any links to show the things in the article are wrong."?
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I guess that depends on if you have proof of where the article is wrong? If you have proof it would be interesting to see the links. :wave:
tulc(always likes to see proof for things)

HTacianas likes to see tulc post links to articles that don't posit fallacies. But tulc rarely does that.
 
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HTacianas likes to see tulc post links to articles that don't posit fallacies. But tulc rarely does that.
NICE! I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the word "posit" in a post before! :oldthumbsup:
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They go on and on about preexisting conditions but then only mention Obamacare. A repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for preexisting conditions. Just as a repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for reconstructive surgery in the case of mastectomy.

Even though I oppose any requirement for coverage for preexisting conditions. That's like buying car insurance after you've been in an accident.

Hi HT,

Uhhhh, you are aware of what the ACA is, right? It is in the ACA that insurance companies are required to discount pre-existing conditions as a reason for withholding medical care insurance. Yes, if the ACA is repealed or reversed, it does absolutely mean that there will be no law on any books of federal law that stop any medical care insurance company from refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions.

If you have such a law that will stand in effect if the ACA is repealed, I also would like a reference to that law. You can just send a link to the law.

BTW, while I understand your analogy, I'm not sure our human bodies and the medical care needed for them is a fair analogy to a car that has already been in an accident. But, if it works for you to say that our bodies and lives are no more important than a hunk of sheet metal...go for it!

God bless,
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They go on and on about preexisting conditions but then only mention Obamacare. A repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for preexisting conditions. Just as a repeal of Obamacare doesn't mean an end to coverage for reconstructive surgery in the case of mastectomy.
It's my understanding that not all states required covering reconstructive surgery and there still isn't any state law that says they must.
Even though I oppose any requirement for coverage for preexisting conditions. That's like buying car insurance after you've been in an accident.
Well, if for some reason you have to change jobs you lose that group coverage that did cover a pre-existing condition and if your next job doesn't have group insurance, you're flat out of luck without the ACA rules. Your state may have a plan to help you but it will be so expensive you can't afford it.

I have had personal experience with this. I was eight years without health ins. from 2003 because I couldn't afford a combined state program that cost over $1,000 a month. I stayed on COBRA as long as I could at only $550.00 a month.

If the ACA ends people will be right back in the same situation that I was but they may not be as fortunate as I was, they may actually lose their home, go bankrupt, or even die.
 
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The real reason Trump's backers don't like coverage for pre-existing conditions is that it allows a worker to seek a better job without losing his insurance. Otherwise, the employee is locked into the job he has, and the employer knows it.

Some CEOs were denouncing it as a way for "lazy" workers to leave their jobs.
 
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Trump’s claim that he ‘saved’ pre-ex conditions ‘part fantasy, part delusion’

While Obamacare may have gotten off to a "rocky" start, the polls must be telling Trump and congressional Republicans that like Medicare, universal healthcare has gained widespread acceptance in America and is an idea whose time has come!

The Republicans have had ample time to make good on this President's boast that he would introduce a better, cheaper healthcare system - like most of his other promises, it was all smoke and mirrors!

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emergence of Bennie Sanders and now Elizabeth Warren as viable presidential candidates is an indicator as to just how far the political center has shifted to the left within the last decade and that if the Republicans want to forestall universal medicare for all, 2020 may be their last chance to produce a credible, private sector alternative!
 
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The emergence of Bennie Sanders and now Elizabeth Warren as viable presidential candidates is an indicator as to just how far the political center has shifted to the left within the last decade and that if the Republicans want to forestall universal medicare for all, 2020 may be their last chance to produce a credible, private sector alternative!

They care too much about their power and money to do what's necessary to save the private system. I'd prefer a private system, but since Obama, no one seems to be willing to do anything to save it.
 
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They care too much about their power and money to do what's necessary to save the private system. I'd prefer a private system, but since Obama, no one seems to be willing to do anything to save it.

From my perspective, the goal of Obamacare was to destroy any hope of saving a private system. Setting up a situation in which private insurance could not help but become a failure. This immediately followed by the insistence on a false dichotomy in which the only other option to Obamacare is complete government control of the health care system aka single payer. So the two options that are given are 1) be forced to buy at an extremely high price private insurance that covers what the government insists it cover whether that meets the individual's needs or not 2) be forced to pay an extremely high tax for publicly funded program that covers what the government insists it cover whether that meets the individual's needs or not. I suggest that there may be other options that might be preferable.
 
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From my perspective, the goal of Obamacare was to destroy any hope of saving a private system.

Odd then, that he rejected a single-pay system when he could have had it.

Setting up a situation in which private insurance could not help but become a failure. This immediately followed by the insistence on a false dichotomy in which the only other option to Obamacare is complete government control of the health care system aka single payer.

The system was broken and only served the insurance companies. Costs were skyrocketing. Since the republicans declined to do anything, someone had to. Notice, that when Trump was elected and republicans got control of Congress they had the opportunity to fix it, and they refused to do it.

Obamacare was a workable system; Trump has done what he could to sabotage it, but Americans won't let him repeal it.
 
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Odd then, that he rejected a single-pay system when he could have had it.

If by "he" you mean EX President Obama, that option was never open to him. He did not reject it. Seeing the real world political situation, he understood how much could be done and told his supporters to wait because the nation was not yet ready for it. IMO Obamacare was designed with the intention of making the nation ready for it.

The system was broken and only served the insurance companies. Costs were skyrocketing. Since the republicans declined to do anything, someone had to. Notice, that when Trump was elected and republicans got control of Congress they had the opportunity to fix it, and they refused to do it.

Obamacare was a workable system; Trump has done what he could to sabotage it, but Americans won't let him repeal it.

A late Senator that voted to repeal it numerous times previously was the one that would not let it be repealed , perhaps out of personal animus for another politician perhaps because he never really wanted it repealed idk. The previous system is irrelevant to what can be done in the future. The point is that there are more ways than two to approach a problem. I, for one, would not feel secure within a system where someone like Donald Trump or Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnel had so much control over my health care options as they would if the government was in complete control of that system. I prefer a system in which I am in complete control of my health care options.
 
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Barbarian observes:
Odd then, that he rejected a single-pay system when he could have had it.

If by "he" you mean EX President Obama, that option was never open to him.

He had control of Congress. He could have had it, if he chose to do thast.

Seeing the real world political situation, he understood how much could be done and told his supporters to wait because the nation was not yet ready for it.

Sounds like a testable belief. Show us some checkable facts. (prediction: we won't see any)
 
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Barbarian observes:



He had control of Congress. He could have had it, if he chose to do thast.

His political party was in control of the Congress not Obama. He barely got Obamacare through and that was seen by insurance companies and their lobbyists as a wonderful thing for them. Do you think that having that sector and its money and influence in complete opposition to something rather than in support would not turn one vote cast for Obamacare to one vote cast against single payer?

Sounds like a testable belief. Show us some checkable facts. (prediction: we won't see any)

Obama statements on single-payer have changed a bit

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House."

Doesn't sound like he rejected single payer to me. Seems like he understands the political situation and is telling his supporters to wait "we may not get there immediately". So when they take the WH , the Senate and the House does he propose single payer? No Obamacare. Why? Perhaps it is because we may not be able to get there immediately?
 
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His political party was in control of the Congress not Obama. He barely got Obamacare through and that was seen by insurance companies and their lobbyists as a wonderful thing for them.

They hate the ban on pre-existing condition exclusions, and were furious when Obama told them that they couldn't classify advertising as "patient services." You've been badly misled about that.

Obama statements on single-payer have changed a bit

Yep. He used to be in favor of private insurance, (which is what I told you). He's now convinced that single-payer is better.
 
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Hi GTAW,

You responded to another's post:
From my perspective, the goal of Obamacare was to destroy any hope of saving a private system. Setting up a situation in which private insurance could not help but become a failure.

I don't see how you see it that way. Private insurance is still doing very well under the present ACA. They are still making a boatload of money. They raised whatever rates needed to be raised in order to care for those with pre-existing conditions. I'm curious as to exactly what part of the ACA you find as some sort of attempt to 'destroy any hope of saving a private system'. You can check the balance sheets of any of the major insurers and they're all doing quite well now some 10 years after ACA was made the law of the land.

If you've got the time and the inclination, I'd like to hear what specific requirements of the ACA are hurting private insurance.

God bless,
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