Broken Promises #1: TrumpCare

[djAdvocate]

first in a series.  stay tuned. 

during the campaign, our current president made many claims about the ACA, and about his own plan.  it would be worth an entire separate thread to articulate how openly hypocritical the attempted passage of TrumpCare (entirely behind closed doors, no public input whatsoever, and attempting to shove it through without even a CBO score, not once, but TWICE) was compared to ObamaCare (arguably the most vetted piece of legislation in modern US political history), what we are left with is a string of false platitudes about how easy this would be, how quick it would be, and how.....well....GREAT it would be, and the following LIES:

1) remove state lines and lower costs.  neither draft of Trumpcare does EITHER.
2) "healthcare for everyone".  Trumpcare does the opposite- DOUBLING the number of uninsured.  you can add "nobody will lose coverage" to this promise.  same deal.  the raw one.
3) protect pre-existing insured.  the administration not only has no plan to do this, but lied about it repeatedly.  you can add to this "protect essential care".  the ACA outlined 11 essential services.  Trumpcare kills them all.
4) no cuts in medicaid.  NOTE: i was unaware he promised this.  stupid promise, considering that the GOP absolutely hates medicaid, and would like to curtail the $880B plan.

www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/trump-health-care-promises-237856

[djAdvocate]

Aug 14, 2017 20:20:47 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Of course the bald faced liar made the empty promise during his campaign.  Not only did he not follow through, he has no idea how to follow through.  He doesn't even know the rudimentary basics of how it works, nor is he interested in learning.

He left the whole sorry effort in the hands of his old male buddies in the Senate.

Epic FAIL.

and then blamed....DEMOCRATS.  that's right.