10 September 2024, presidential debate, subject: healthcare
ABC moderator: "So just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan."
Trump: "I have concepts of a plan. I'm not president right now. But if we come up with something I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future."
Trump's customary dodge of a question about policy is to say he'll be releasing details of what he intends to do "in two weeks." He knows he will have propelled a veritable volcano of unrelated infamies by then; everyone will have forgotten about the unforthcoming plan.
At the debate and in the matter of his healthcare plan he tried a variation on the theme: not two weeks but "in the not-too-distant future." Twenty days have passed, and five'll get you 10 that Trump's definitely planned banana republic's second banana JD Vance will re-vomit tomorrow night that with which he fouled NBC News' airwaves in mid-Sept.
Naturally my wager assumes that Americans' health, an incidental issue I grant you, comes up in question form. If so, way back to lo those distant two weeks past, JD up and offered this almost unbelievably catastrophic, second-hand healthcare draft:
"[Trump is thinking of a] deregulatory agenda so that people can choose a health care plan that fits them." And that means? Because everyone's needs differ, Trump will "promote some more choice in our healthcare system and not have a one-size-fits-all approach that puts a lot of people into the same insurance pools, into the same risk pools, that actually makes it harder for people to make the right choices for their families."
And with that, JD whacked thousands of Americans living in a potential Project 2025 cesspool, which replaced Obamacare's risk pools. Having the absolute largest number of people in a national healthcare plan is the entire thrust of achieving the absolute lowest cost for people covered, since everyone is contributing to its fund.
And what would we call such a plan? "A one-size-fits-all approach." The mathematical and fiscal reasoning behind it is so bloody obvious it nearly goes without saying. A child could understand it. Who might not?
Millions of Trump supporters — many of them the very people now benefiting health-wise and financially from Obamacare's structure. They either simply don't grasp the math or they don't care because their sole interests lie in Trump's trans-bashing and lib-owning — in brief, whatever cultural folderol affects or improves their lives not one whit.
When Trump's most nettlesome ghost, before Sen. John McCain became he, gave a thumb-down to Republicans' 2017 homicidal attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, numerical estimates of Americans who'd lose their healthcare under the GOP alternative ranged up to 30 million. Had the alternative prevailed, many of the millions would now be dead.
The issue is receiving little notice in this presidential election season, largely because of Trump's determination to keep the media and voters focused on Kamala's laugh or Tim's coaching status or non-opponent Joe's crookedness. The real pity of it is, his determination works.
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