Trump-Care Would Leave Millions Uninsured While Somehow Costing More

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by Olga Kazan at the Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/hillarycare-trumpcare-obamacare/501248/

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Hillary Clinton’s plan for health care can best be summed up as Obamacare Plus: If elected, she would push to preserve the Affordable Care Act as-is, but she would add financial protections for struggling consumers.

Donald Trump’s health-care ideas, meanwhile, mirror his image as a renegade who will smash the system and rebuild it from scratch. He would annihilate the Affordable Care Act and replace it with an assortment of half-measures, most of which would benefit only people who are healthy and well-off, if anyone.

If enacted, Clinton’s health-care proposals would likely insure several million more people by making insurance cheaper for people in most income categories, according to a new analysis by the Rand Corporation and the Commonwealth Fund. Trump’s plan, meanwhile, would strip insurance coverage from 16 million people while raising out-of-pocket expenses for most people who aren’t insured through their employers, the report authors found. Both plans would increase the deficit.

Though both candidates have mentioned a wide variety of health-care issues in their speeches and appearances, Rand economists focused on four of each candidate’s proposals for the analysis. The comparison is somewhat hindered by the lack of detail in many of Trump’s policy proposals. In some areas where Clinton put forth a comprehensive plan, such as long-term care and substance abuse, Trump provides vague ideas or none at all.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. I listened as he talked about Texas, a state which the republican governors refused to

Go with expanded Medicaid and he says u t costs lots of money. What the hell, complain about the refusal to accept Medicaid expansion. What is Trumps fix, Trumpcare.

[texanwitch]

2. Thrump care

He would run it like all his businesses.

Take all the profits and run it into the ground.

[lastlib]

3. TrumpCare=GOPeeDon'tCare.

One and the same thing.

GOPee Health plan plank #1: Don't Get Sick

GOPee Health plan plank #2: If you do, Die Quickly.

GOPee Health plan plank #3: When you die, WE get whatever's left.