This craven, soulless monster with a piss-poor excuse for a heart just came out with his plans for Obamacare by holding the healthcare of millions of Americans hostage in order to get Democrats to “come to the table.”
President Donald Trump is contemplating a new strategy to get repeal of the Affordable Care Act through Congress: threatening to torpedo insurance for millions of Americans unless Democrats agree to negotiate with him.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal that appeared on Wednesday, Trump made a warning. If Democrats won’t talk repeal, the president said, Republicans might decide to cut off some subsidies now flowing to health insurers offering coverage through Obamacare’s exchanges.
“I don’t want people to get hurt,” Trump said, sounding a bit like a mobster describing a protection racket. “What I think should happen — and will happen — is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.”
By cutting off subsides, it means that Americans will see their premiums increase by 19%. It’s also a craven strategy to get Americans to turn on the Democratic Party, and change the momentum of town halls. This is a serious miscalculation, because it won’t work.
Democrats will make sure that every man, woman, and child in America know that it is Trump and the Republican party who jacked up their premiums.
It is Trump and the Republican Party who took away the subsidies.
It is Trump and the Republican Party who wanted to take away essential health care benefits.
It is Trump and the Republican Party who wanted to increase premiums on the elderly.
It is Trump and the Republican Party who wanted to sell junk insurance plans to Americans.
They do not have the country’s best interests at mind.
Democrats do, and they’ll be campaigning on that heading into the midterms. They are the ones who really put America first, not Trump and his band of corporate crony kleptocrats.