Health care is moving along. That was a subsidy to the insurance companies and a gift that was what they gave the insurance companies.
This is a lie. The insurance companies were required by law to offer discounts to low-income Americans, and these payments reimbursed them.
Take a look at where their stock was when Obamacare was originally approved and what it is today. You will see numbers that if you invested in the stocks, you would be extremely happy. They have given them a total gift.
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They have given them — you can almost call it a pay off.
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That money goes to the insurance companies. We want to take care of poor people and people that need help with health care.
Lie. Plans offered so far have taken insurance away from millions.
I’m never going to get campaign contributions from the insurance companies, but take a look at how much money has been spent by the Democrats and by the health companies on politicians generally, but take a look at the coffers of the Democrats.
The CSR payments have actually brought Republicans and Democrats together.
To oppose ending them? Huh?
We got calls, emergency calls from the Democrats and I think probably the Republicans were also calling them saying let’s come up with at least a short-term fix of health care in this country.
What?
And the gravy train ended the day I knocked the insurance companies’ money. Which was last week. Hundred of millions of dollars handed to the insurance companies for very little reason.
Lie. There is much agreement that ending these payments will upset the market.
Believe me.
No...
I want the money to go to the people, to poor people that need it.
Uh huh. Believe me.
Not to insurance companies which is where it’s going, as of last week I ended that. We have a lot of interesting things to do. I’m meeting with Mitch McConnell for lunch and we will say a few words after that.
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We need health care. We’re going to get the health care done. In my opinion what’s happening is as we meet Republicans are meeting with Democrats because of what I did with the CSR.
Lie. They were meeting before.
I cutoff the gravy train.
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If I didn’t cut the CSRs, they wouldn’t be meeting. They would be having lunch and enjoying themselves.
Lie. Seriously, you think we are going to give you credit for solving this issue?
They are right now having emergency meetings to get a short-term fix of health care. Where premiums don’t have to double and triple every year like they’ve been doing under Obamacare.
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Because Obamacare is finished. It’s dead. It’s gone. You shouldn’t even mention it. It’s gone. There is no such thing as Obamacare anymore.
So you just admitted that you are trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act, the law of the land that you have a duty to implement, did I get that right?
I said this years ago. It’s a concept that couldn’t have worked. In its best days it couldn’t have worked.
Lie. You can't work so hard to destroy something and then claim it did not work. That's stupid.
Blah blah blah...
I think the Democrats will be blamed for the mess. This is an Obamacare mess. When the premiums go up, that has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that we had poor care delivered poorly, written poorly, approved by the Democrats.
Lie. This is a Trump mess.
Tillerson was right.
