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blatham wrote:

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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 And just this week, he made it clear that he would also sign a bill that fully repealed Obamacare and kicked 32 million people off of health insurance.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?

WISE, Va. — The sick and the disabled pour out of these mountains every summer for their one shot at free health care, but this year was supposed to hold hope for a better solution.

. . .

It is the place of last resort for people who can’t afford insurance even under Obamacare or who don’t qualify for Medicaid in a state where the legislature has resisted expansion.

. . .

Many of these people voted for Trump — not only for his vow to fix health care, but also for his promise to bring back the coal industry. They’re still waiting for results, with varying degrees of patience.

. . .

[Patricia] McConnell has been watching the health-care debate in Washington and wondering if it will ever amount to anything that actually helps people like her. “I don’t know what they’re trying to do,” she said, struggling to get the words out around the gauze.

She voted for Trump, she said, and still feels that he’s working hard to help. But his anger and his tweets seem to aggravate Congress, and no one is working together, she said.

They need to set all that aside and work to pass health care for everyone, she said. “Let’s get this done.”

Others had a hard time mustering the faith that anyone cared.

“They’re trying to kill us poor people, is what they’re trying to do,” said Robert Horne, 55, a disabled former construction worker seeking dental care. Horne said he voted for Hillary Clinton last fall because of her pledge to maintain the Affordable Care Act.

That didn’t work out, either.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who flew out to the clinic Friday morning, had invited Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to join him but said that the Republican leader “politely” declined.

. . .

Stan Brock, the English philanthropist who founded the RAM clinic program more than 30 years ago, said there was one more visitor he’d like to see at the clinic.

“It’s absolutely imperative that the president of the United States come and visit one of these events,” he said. “I believe if he did, he would take some immediate action.”

The Bogus Voter-Fraud Commission

The truth can’t be repeated often enough: The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which held its first meeting last week, is a sham and a scam.

It is run by some of the nation’s most determined vote suppressors, the kind who try to throw out voter registrations for being printed on insufficiently thick paper or who release reports on noncitizen voting that are titled “Alien Invasion” and illustrated with images of U.F.O.s.

Its purpose is not to restore integrity to elections but to undermine the public’s confidence enough to push through policies and practices that make registration and voting harder, if not impossible, for certain groups of people who tend to vote Democratic.

If Trump chooses to tell the truth, his words are likely to align with my words

What a devastating rebuttal of all my facts

When the Democrats fight tooth and nail to undermine any attempt to get a handle on how much voter fraud there is, they undermine their claims that there is no evidence of such fraud.