Can Anyone Stop this Trump Madness Run Amok
(The all GOP-run Congress can stop him, will they)
Ring, Ring, Ring: “Thanks for calling the healthcare destruction help
line. I’m Dr. Donald. How may I help you? Remember that your government is
always here to help and assist you anyway possible with your dire healthcare
needs. Now listen carefully to this prerecorded message.”
Media now
has a solemn duty for the public report, report, report and be as factual as
possible on this topic from Media Matters with this headline:
Heart of the story – as if Donald J.
Trump even had a heart – cite:
Trump just announced
(October 12) that he would be ending cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to
insurers, which have been a crucial part of the ACA and that have helped ensure
that low-income Americans can afford health insurance.
During the
fight over the ACA this summer, media outlets made a litany
of mistakes in their health care coverage. Given the dire consequences of
this latest move to dismantle the ACA, it’s increasingly important that
coverage avoids a few key pitfalls.
More about this latest Trump EO that he
acts as if were law (it’s not):
Ending
cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments is the latest move by the GOP-led effort
to sabotage the ACA and it has been since 2010, and media must say so.
Republican efforts
to take down the ACA is not
new,
but they have been re-galvanized
under Trump’s presidency. A lot of the destruction Trump and his cronies have
caused has been in
the shadows, and that strategy has fooled the media into neglecting
to mention the role of sabotage whenever anything goes wrong in the health care
market.
FYI: The ACA was doing fine before Trump got his hands
on it even with minor glitches.
Despite the near
constant
complaints
from right-wing media figures of a “death spiral,” various analyses have found that the
Obamacare markets were in fact stabilizing.
Even the Trump administration’s own Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
released a report finding
stable markets in 2016.
This
sabotage really shouldn’t be surprising. Trump said
he would “let Obamacare implode,” if congressional efforts to repeal and replace
the ACA failed. They did horribly many times: votes in Congress and two weak
substitute bills went nowhere.
I conclude: Anything new coming from this will be 100% be labeled Trumpcare.
Make no mistake about it, this move is the worst in healthcare history.
It also reveals the worst
president in American history.
Thanks for stopping by.
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