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Close Trump friend says ditch Paul Ryan's plan and embrace universal health care

A key Trump friend and ally is urging the president to dump Paul Ryan’s Affordable Health Care Act and embrace something that sounds sort of like a lightweight version of a single-payer health care system. Christopher Ruddy, CEO of the conservative Newsmax brand, isn’t normally considered a major thought leader on policy issues, but he is a longtime friend of Trump’s, and counts as one of a relatively small number of conservative players who have closer ties to Trump than to congressional Republican leaders.

And he is warning loud and clear that Trump “could inherit the bad political baggage of both Obamacare and the House Republicans” if he insists on going along with Ryan’s version of repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Instead, Ruddy puts forward the rather radical notion that Trump should attempt to live up to his campaign promises on health care rather than signing on to legislation that betrays them all. To do it, he encourages Trump to ditch his effort to court the Freedom Caucus and instead come up with a bipartisan plan that accepts a large government role in providing insurance coverage.

The very fact you can't accept that 9-11 was committed by Muslim terrorists proves we won't even come close to having a reasonable discussion, but we can try.

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t fighting the White House’s initial budget that proposes to cut the agency’s budget by about $2 billion — or roughly 25% — and reduce the agency’s workforce by roughly 3,000 employees.

Climate change programs would be gutted under the proposal and the workforce attached to these programs would be cleared out of the agency — in line with the aggressive vision of EPA transition head Myron Ebell.

The Trump Administration, in fact, is now discussing making even deeper cuts to the EPA, according to a source privy to the White House’s internal deliberations. Senior Trump officials consider the EPA the leading edge of the administration’s plans to deconstruct the administrative state.

He even paid his personal legal fees from his charitable foundation.

The Clinton Global Initiative, which is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, is expected to cease operations on April 15 — according to a noticed filed with the New York State Department of Labor. The notice, which is dated January 12, also announced the termination of 22 employees within The Clinton Global Initiative. According to reports, the Initiative began faltering amid accusations of impropriety.

You can repeat fake news every day until the sun goes down and that will never make it true.

Older people would be hard hit. The Republican plan repeals the penalty for not buying insurance. One predictable result of this change is that premiums will rise as younger, healthier people refuse to buy insurance. To hold down the cost of average premiums, the proposal would allow insurers to charge five times more for older enrollees than younger ones, rather than three times, as permitted under Obamacare. The outcome would be reduced premiums for young adults, essentially paid for by charging substantially higher premiums for older people — and higher deductibles and other cost-sharing for everyone.

At the same time, the plan provides a $600 billion tax cut over 10 years for wealthy Americans, because they would no longer be subject to the taxes that pay for the health care subsidies. When the tax cuts for the rich and the spending cuts to Medicaid are combined, they would result in deficit reduction of $337 billion by 2026. That’s a small fraction of the national debt in exchange for an enormous amount of human misery.

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Charity Navigator gives the Clinton Foundation 4 out of 4 stars.

maporsche wrote:

Yes. I've been very busy.

How many have you spoken with who don't want health insurance (if they didn't have to pay for it)

Only one and he was very happy with the changes.

It was bullshit indeed !

It's truly remarkable to note how slavishly the supposedly anti- authoritarian progressive believers among us bow down to academic titles and Nobel prizes, without regard to real merit. Evidently they are natural "members of the herd", following the cow with the bell, however the bell may sound. This also fits the pattern of blatham's equally slavish attention to liberal; media and the various blogs and magazines from which he gets most of his pasted material. Natural born followers all. It is also interesting to note that most of their criticisms of their political opponents involves citing failures to conform to the various doctrines of group think to which they so incessantly affirm their loyalty. Freedom, individuality and independent thought are their enemies.