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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 09:00 PM Mar 2017

White House Admits Trump 'Insurance For Everybody' Guarantee Isn't Going To Happen [View all]

Source: MSN/Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney threw cold water on the promise that “everybody” would get health insurance under GOP legislation ― a promise that was made by none other than President Donald Trump himself.

“We don’t have universal ― the only way to have universal care, if you stop to think about it, is to force people to buy it under penalty of law,” Mulvaney said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

The expectation of everyone in the nation getting health insurance if Trump took office came from promises he himself made.

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in January. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” In 2015, Trump similarly told CBS’s “60 Minutes,” “Everybody’s got to be covered.”

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-admits-trump-insurance-for-everybody-guarantee-isnt-going-to-happen/ar-BByo3Nf



If Trump's promise is cruel, backward or racist, then he will certainly keep his promise. However, if the promise actually helps the work class or middle class, then you can be sure that it is a lie.
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Except of course for those on the Trump gravy train. tenorly Mar 2017 #1
Suckers! femmocrat Mar 2017 #2
Yeah, but at least it's not GWC58 Mar 2017 #4
I think it is starting to hit them now. femmocrat Mar 2017 #6
Of course there will be. Plucketeer Mar 2017 #9
Surprise! joanbarnes Mar 2017 #3
Well GOPers, we could tax people based upon their income rather than paying premiums. Hoyt Mar 2017 #5
Solution: send everybody to the Gulag. Mulvaney is subtly warning us... progree Mar 2017 #7
Yes and let's bring back the Debtors Prisons. Marie Marie Mar 2017 #16
The private for-profit ones owned by the oligarchs progree Mar 2017 #17
Those without insurance got Freedom NCjack Mar 2017 #8
The one thing we can afford to do, and as a nation have a moral responsibility to do, becomes Augiedog Mar 2017 #10
Budget director's fault ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #11
Shocker. Trump lied. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #12
He lied to get elected SHRED Mar 2017 #13
And he will lie to stay in office. dalton99a Mar 2017 #14
I can't BELIEVE anyone believed that a_hat! Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #15
The rest of the developed world has universal healtcare. Little Tich Mar 2017 #18
The Republicans must really think Americans are inept to not be able to make Lanius Mar 2017 #23
Another Trump campaign promise down the toilet! Enough is enough! Initech Mar 2017 #19
Single payer, Mulvaney. Never heard of it, dolt? Mc Mike Mar 2017 #20
You said it exactly, 100% right, but I would add one additional clause. lark Mar 2017 #21
If only we could buy Trump Insurance... Thor_MN Mar 2017 #22
Remember when Republicans were incensed at "You can keep your plan"? Beartracks Mar 2017 #24
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