Hey, maybe he can peel off Klobuchar in the Senate!
This is amazing.
For the click impaired:
Company is running an obvious fraud system, to the tune of billions. The DOJ indicts them, and presents evidence. These folks are going to go to jail, perhaps for a while. The evidence is pretty clear cut of egregious fraud and wrong-doing, using parts of the ACA to defraud customers and get rich. All indicted plead guilty.
BUTā¦with the Trump administration insisting theyāll no longer defend the ACA on constitutional grounds, the lawyer representing the aforementioned grifters is asking the judge in that case to throw it all out or declare a mistrial, because the laws violated by these fraudsters were just declared unconstitutional by a judge and by the Trump administration.
So yeah.
What are the odds the aforementioned grifters contributed not-insignificant sums to the GOP and possibly Trumpās campaign?
CraigM
3746
Iād say about as likely as they, or one of their allies, having a membership at Mar a Lago or renting offices from a Trump property.
Menzo
3747
So yeah, Trump is handling healthcare just like DACA. He intends to create a crisis and then dump responsibility on Congress to handle it.
Timex
3748
Democrats in the house should put together a comprehensive healthcare solution now. Take advantage of the vacuum on the GOP side.
JonRowe
3749
Yes, this. Make em vote against a Healthcare policy, and take that into the polls in 2020.
Enidigm
3750
Everyone needs to understand that modern conservativism is not a constructive thing. It only wants to cut, remove, and undo.
Challenge any conservative today that you know, as them āif you could do anything, any policy, all the policies, what would they be?ā and aside from the occasional space nerd, most of them will only recommend cutting (liberal passed) programs, removing (liberal passed) programs, taxes or policies, or undoing (liberal passed) policies.
The modern Republican party is utterly incapable of constructive policy decisions on such a scale because they simply donāt think about them that way at all. If you put a gun to their head and forced them to do so, theyāll be thinking the whole time about how to cut taxes (for the donor class) and what can we do to undo liberal policies, and damn the effectiveness of the plan otherwise.
In all honesty, if I were advising Trump, hereās what Iād do.
Iād sit him down and say āWhy did Republicans just HATE the ACA/Obamacare when it first launched? Like aside from the name, why did they hate it?ā
āBecause it was a Republican plan. And a black Democratic President co-opted it and got it passed, when Nixon, Reagan, et al couldnāt even get a House committee to consider it.ā
Want to pay them back and piss them off and for sure win re-election in 2020? Do this: Take the ACA as written. Fix the wording that allows the loophole for states to opt out. Now add a public option to it ā Medicare ā on the exchanges. Call for an increase in funding to balance the risk pools. Boom. TrumpCare. Use your clout in the Senate to force them to pass it. Then dare the Democratic House to vote against a plan that they already support.
Seriously. One swoop. You supplant Obamaās name on the healthcare legacy for America, you win in 2020, and lots of folks will tell you how awesome you are.
I canāt imagine the Fox News talking heads would like that plan very much.
Trump has tons of political capital. Let him flex that.
Menzo
3755
Yeah, as @divedivedive notes, I think that would be a politically savvy play, but Trumpās economic advisory committee of Hannity, Coulter, and Limbaugh wouldnāt let him do it.
Oh, itās a completely unlikely and improbable scenario, to be sure. Mostly, though, because I donāt think anyone associated with Trump has that kind of outside-the-box thinking skills.
Alstein
3757
Dems would take that deal happily and call it a win.
Trump would improve his re-election odds slightly, House Dems would improve it more.
McConnel to Trump: fuck off.
Timex
3759
Trump isnāt gonna come up with a plan. That shit is hard.
Heās just gonna break the ACA in court, and expect others to fix it.
Because heās lazy and dumb.
āLazy and dumbā needs to go on his tombstone. Amongst other things.
Are we talking about Armandoās digestive system again?
I hope to christ Iām not leaving my digestive system behind on these tombs.
Also, Trump will probably get buried somewhere much harder to get into. And shit in undisturbed.
