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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago

So all the healthcare plan is missing is the "healthcare" part and the "plan" part.

Sounds about par for the course 😮‍💨

[-] benignintervention@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

It's almost a concept of a plan

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Suppose Everyone Enjoys This Hell, Eh?

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

10 years of talking about a healthcare plan, and it is a single page with not much to go on.

It's like he had someone list talking points for a speech, where they would avoid any questions about how they planned to bring down the costs other than, "have them list their prices and claim denials."

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Fund cost sharing...? Isn't that socialism?

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And the bit about sending government subsidies to taxpayers for them to buy insurance instead of directly funding insurance companies...

I guess it's not socialism if you get the money first?

These fucking morons have no functioning brain cells... If daddy Trump says it then it's good. If a Democrat says the same fucking thing then it's evil communism socialism death panel insurance scam....

[-] dipcart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I was gonna say. This sounds more like a proposal you would make on the campaign trail than an actual plan

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Of course he wants to make more drugs "over the counter" so doctor Google can prescribe expensive medicines you likely don't need and ditch the real doctor.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I love how these rich fucks think "let the people shop for their own healthcare plans" would help anything. As if I could afford private insurance not subsidized by my employer?

[-] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

More like continue to slash reimbursement and push AI

[-] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

None of these are material financial levers that would drive down healthcare costs. Overhead and claims payments are visible in health insurance companies' public financials. Displaying denial rates doesn't change denial rates. More otc seems like it has potential for abuse by patients i.e., creating unsafe environments where people have carte blanche access to drugs (could see it maybe modestly lowering prices for a subset of medication) - prices on the wall? When your appendix bursts, good luck going shopping for the best price. What are you gonna do, die in the lobby while "shopping"?

This "plan" is a bad joke. While for profit health insurance has it's inefficiencies and misaligned incentives, the answer is NOT this - it's clearly single payer.

Is it Trump's mission in life to make the word "great" completely meaningless?

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

And a bunch of em-dashes!

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Look at all that negative space, it's barely more than half a page

[-] kingofras@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What are you waiting for exactly? Enough has been released to justify action, what are you waiting for?

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

People still have the hope that the Epstein files will take him down. I think nothing will happen even if it comes out he trafficked and raped children.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Jesus you people.. Do you think not releasing the Epstein files is really the worst thing going on?

Like "Hitler invading Poland was a distraction!"

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

What's in the Epstein files is the one thing that could bring that motherfucker down. His base will handle a lot of shit but raping 14 yr olds isn't one of them.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is his plan to rape kids and then make sure the oligarchs have no laws or accountability of any kind so they can bleed us dry while raping our kids?

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The surprising part is that people are still alarmed by this. I mean, come on. What were they expecting? Something halfway decent from the president of Venezuela? Maybe the FIFA peace prize winner and his henchmen were going to deliver a 305 page triumph over the corruption and greed that is our healthcare system? Set your expectations lower than what you expect and you will rarely be disappointed. In this case, the floor is standard and you'll break out even.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I mean this is a pretty easy task, how are they fucking it up so badly?! You look at countries with affordable effective health care, then copy their work. It's not like they've copyrighted their legislation. Hell most of them will probably help you implement what they've done and tell you all about the pain points if you ask nicely.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Countries with affordable health care tend to have heavy regulations and use taxes to help fund the system. MAGA would probably riot over "socialism" and "guvurnment overreach"

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Nah that's incorrect, the American system costs the government more per capita than Australia's with significantly worse outcomes for end users.

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Notwithstanding but that's been the Republican plan details since the inception of the ACA.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

At this point he should be impeached again just for wasting everyone's time

(Impeachment is useless, I know. It's a joke)

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is why I stopped asking what else this fucking bastard is going to do next.

He's just doing work for Putin.

[-] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Healthcare ideas from a guy who’s about to kick the bucket and some guy with a voice that sounds like when I have stubborn phlegm in my throat. What a time to be alive.

[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

This guy CLEARLY does not care about any of us, guys. It just sucks we gotta wait his sick ass out....

[-] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Do we really though?

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