@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Quote:Christopher D. Long‏
@octonion
Why does Trump think health insurance costs $12/year? Because Gerber advertises life insurance for babies on Fox News for about that price.
9:21 AM - 22 Jul 2017
I hope we all understand that this is entirely plausible.
Of course it is.
It seems fairly obvious that he has absolutely no clue what health insurance even is. It's never been an issue for him, and he likely doesn't understand - at all - what the whole fuss is about. And can't be bothered to find out about it, either.
As far as he knows, the big problem here is that Obamacare is named for the guy he's despised for so many years now, so obviously that has to go. That's what he promised. That's what he wants. And whenever he made that promise at his campaign rallies, people were cheering for him. So it's gotta be right.
Just before his inauguration, he promised "insurance for everybody." Then he had a little celebration party in the Rose Garden - champagne and all - over a bill that was going to cost 24 million people their health insurance. And just this week, he made it clear that he would also sign a bill that fully repealed Obamacare and kicked 32 million people off of health insurance. Or just let Obamacare collapse. Or sign repeal-and-replace. It's not like those details matter, as long as he can claim some kind of victory.
And realistically, how much could health insurance possibly cost? $12 a year? $15 a month?