While Donald Trump feigns to support protecting those with pre-existing conditions, if successful with the Supreme Court in striking down Obamacare, the move would permanently wipe out coverage for as many as twenty-three million Americans while we’re still dealing with a raging pandemic. Trump promised an immediate viable replacement for the ACA in 2016, and now it’s nearly four years later, and the president has come up with nothing. And he keeps claiming that he’ll have an alternative plan in “two weeks,” but that hasn’t ever happened. And now, he wants you to believe that he’ll have a healthcare plan if he’s reelected, but that, too, sounds like fantasy after he failed to keep his promise.
Democratic senators unloaded on the Trump administration’s record on health care during hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, hammering the GOP for trying to push through a nominee less than a month before the court is due to hear the president-backed lawsuit aimed at overturning the entire Affordable Care Act. When she was a law professor, Barrett tried to puncture arguments favoring Obamacare.
Trump appears to have reacted after Democrats took him to him to the woodshed.
We will have Healthcare which is FAR BETTER than ObamaCare, at a FAR LOWER COST – BIG PREMIUM REDUCTION. PEOPLE WITH PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS WILL BE PROTECTED AT AN EVEN HIGHER LEVEL THAN NOW. HIGHLY UNPOPULAR AND UNFAIR INDIVIDUAL MANDATE ALREADY TERMINATED. YOU’RE WELCOME!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020
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Actually, the ACA already protects pre-existing conditions.
Republicans must state loudly and clearly that WE are going to provide much better Healthcare at a much lower cost. Get the word out! Will always protect pre-existing conditions!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020
Twitter users pounced:
You spent the past four years trying to END healthcare that protects preexisting conditions, instead of trying to create a healthcare plan.
You have no healthcare plan.
You have no COVID-19 plan.
You have nothing but panic and desperation.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) October 12, 2020
YOU PROMISED THE SAME THING FOUR YEARS AGO AND SAID IT WOULD BE READY TO GO ON DAY ONE. WHERE IS IT?
— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) October 12, 2020
Magic secret plans aren’t plans. FYI
— Darryl Silver (@silveraa) October 12, 2020
He has no idea what he’s talking about. They’ve had FOUR YEARS to do something and have done NOTHING. Ask any other sane Republican and they’ll tell you there is NO Health Care plan to replace the ACA – he lives in his own fantasy world.
— USED TO BE G.O.P. (@Used_To_Be_GOP) October 12, 2020
It’s actually Democratic nominee Joe Biden who helped to steer through the passage of the Affordable Care Act that protected Americans from insurers denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. It’s Donald Trump that is in court trying to eradicate the ACA in its entirety, and that includes protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions.
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