“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the Washington Post as president-elect.
It was a promise he also made during his campaign. At an MSNBC town hall in February 2016, host Joe Scarborough asked Trump if “all Americans will get health care of some sort.” Trump responded, “we’re going to take care of them. We’re going to take care of them. We have to take care of them. Now, that’s not single payer. That’s not anything. That’s just human decency.
The CBO says 22 million fewer people with insurance by 2026, and even the WH analysis predicts 26 million.
I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.
The CBO says Medicaid to be cut by $880Bn in the first decade.
“Will people with pre-existing conditions be able to get health insurance?” Anderson Cooper asked him at a campaign stop. “Yes,” Trump replied.
“You’re going to see pre-existing conditions and everything else be part of it, but the price will be down, and the insurance companies can pay,” Trump said at a GOP debate in Texas. “Yes, they will keep pre-existing conditions, and that would be a great thing. Get rid of Obamacare, we’ll come up with new plans. But, we should keep pre-existing conditions.”
Insurance companies will be able to deny pre-existing conditions, forcing people into expensive high-risk pools.
Who is lying now?