What Trump did made us less prepared for a pandemic. Less than a year before we were hit with a pandemic and you still can’t bring your self to say maybe that had an effect on the response.
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Fantasy Conjecture and Assumption ...... YOU have NO Proof
Just like you make excuses for Trump not having relapsed his taxes which he said he would do,
Aww Poor Baby ...... Trump CHANGED his Mind, and YOU have no RIGHT To see His Tax Filings
You make excuses for him not building a wall and Mexico not paying for it.
Damn you are Ignorant ........
Trump tours wall as construction hits 200-mile mark, says southern border has 'never been more secure'
Just like you excuse him for not having repealed and replaced Obamacare despite him saying it was his first priority.
More Fantasy Conjecture and Misinformation
Trump Is Trying Hard To Thwart Obamacare. How's That Going?
1. Individual mandate eliminated
What is it? The individual mandate is the requirement that all U.S. residents either have health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate was intended to help keep the premiums for ACA policies low by ensuring that more healthy people entered the health insurance market.
What changed? The
2017 Republican-backed tax overhaul legislation reduced the penalty for not having insurance to $0.
What does the administration say? "We eliminated Obamacare's horrible, horrible, very expensive and very unfair, unpopular individual mandate. A total disaster. That was a big penalty. That was a big thing. Where you paid a lot of money for the privilege [...] of having no healthcare." — President Trump,
The Villages, Florida, Oct. 3, 2019
2. States allowed to add "work requirements" to Medicaid
What is it? Medicaid expansion was a key part of the ACA. The federal government helped pay for states (that chose to) to expand Medicaid eligibility beyond families to include all low-income adults, and to raise the income threshold, so that more people would be eligible. So far,
37 states and Washington have opted to expand Medicaid.
What changed? Under Trump, if they get approval from the federal government, states can now require Medicaid beneficiaries to prove with documentation that they either work or go to school.
What does the administration say? "When you consider that, less than five years ago, Medicaid was expanded to nearly 15 million new working-age adults, it's fair that states want to add community engagement requirements for those with the ability to meet them. It's easier to give someone a card; it's much harder to build a ladder to help people climb their way out of poverty. But even though it is harder, it's the right thing to do." — Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
Washington, Sept. 27, 2018
3. Cost-sharing reduction subsidies to insurers have ended
What is it? Payments from the federal government to insurers to motivate them to stay in the ACA insurance exchanges and help keep premiums down.
What changed? The Trump administration
suddenly stopped paying these subsidies in 2017.
What does the administration say? "I knocked out the hundreds of millions of dollars a month being paid back to the insurance companies by politicians. ... This is money that goes to the insurance companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices. And they've had a record run. They've had an incredible run, and it's not appropriate." — President Trump,
the White House, Oct 17, 2017
4. Access to short-term "skinny" plans has been expanded
What is it? The ACA initially established rules that health plans sold on HealthCare.gov and state exchanges had to cover people with preexisting conditions and had to provide certain "essential benefits." President Obama
limited any short-term insurance policies that did not provide those benefits to a maximum duration of three months. (The original idea of these policies is that they can serve as a helpful bridge for people between school and a job, for example.)
What changed? The Trump administration issued a
rule last year that allowed these short-term plans to last 364 days and to be renewable for three years.
What does the administration say? "We took swift action to open short-term health plans and association health plans to millions and millions of Americans. Many of these options are already reducing the cost of health insurance premiums by up to 60% and, really, more than that." — President Trump,
The White House, June 14, 2019
5. Funds to facilitate HealthCare.gov sign-ups slashed
What is it? The ACA created
Navigator programs and an advertising budget to help people figure out specifics of the new federally run insurance exchanges and sign up for coverage.
What changed? In August 2017, the administration significantly
cut federal funding for these programs.
What does the administration say? "It's time for the Navigator program to evolve. ... This decision reflects CMS' commitment to put federal dollars for the federally facilitated Exchanges to their most cost effective use in order to better support consumers through the enrollment process." — CMS Administrator Seema Verma,
written statement, July 10, 2018
just like you excuse golfing more than Obama despite having served half the time.
That's the best ya got ..... Golf Criticism
there is nothing you won’t make an excuse for. He has done nothing and you still cheer him.
Yes The Woke Twitterati Intersectionalism is a very danger cult