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Lesley Stahl: Let me ask you about Obamacare, which you say you’re going to repeal and replace. When you replace it, are you going to make sure that people with pre-conditions are still covered?
Donald Trump: Yes. Because it happens to be one of the strongest assets.
Lesley Stahl: You’re going to keep that?
Donald Trump: Also, with the children living with their parents for an extended period, we’re gonna--
Lesley Stahl: You’re gonna keep that--
Donald Trump: Very much try and keep that. Adds cost, but it’s very much something we’re going to try and keep.
Lesley Stahl: And there’s going to be a period if you repeal it and before you replace it, when millions of people could lose -– no?
Donald Trump: No, we’re going to do it simultaneously. It’ll be just fine. We’re not going to have, like, a two-day period and we’re not going to have a two-year period where there’s nothing. It will be repealed and replaced. And we’ll know. And it’ll be great health care for much less money. So it’ll be better health care, much better, for less money. Not a bad combination.
During the recent initial votes to repeal the ACA, all possible amendments to assure any protections were defeated, including keeping coverage for pre-existing conditions. Now that's not the last vote, but still, not reassuring. Also it's pointless window dressing to even say that will stay if the subsidies and mandates are taken away, because premiums will skyrocket so it will effectively not keep coverage, even if technically it's not repealed.
He correctly forecast for Donald Trump to win the U.S. election, and now documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is predicting that the presidency will end with impeachment or resignation.
“Here’s what’s going to happen, this is why we’re not going to have to suffer through four years of Donald J. Trump, because he has no ideology except the ideology of Donald J. Trump,” Moore said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“And when you have a narcissist like that, who’s so narcissistic where it’s all about him, he will, maybe unintentionally, break laws. He will break laws because he’s only thinking about what’s best for him.”
I asked the other day how I could best deal with the terrible news every day so as to be most effective in my own life. The backdrop is that I am in the U.S. and not only have I been seriously dismayed at the political changes in general with the last election, but the new Congress is already rushing through trying to repeal the health care changes that have made my life workable. I have several chronic illnesses and can only work part-time, so it will deeply harm my life if this goes through. Staying current with all the news, which I feel is important, is also making me very anxious.
Events are playing on some sort of destiny level (ways of heaven) beyond our control and comprehension.
Maybe this means that the more we keep aware of what's going on the less likely it is to cause anxiety, the more likely you are to find a way to flow with the situation.
Thanks for everyone's input. I had a couple questions and clarifications -
Trojina (or anyone else who remembers this), do you know where that political predication post was that you said also resulted in 26.6? I thought that was very interesting that it was the same casting, and I'd like to read it.
I do think this reading is about how I can cope with the political changes overall, even though the health piece will affect me more specifically, because when I was focusing on my question, I did think about that, and decided it was about how to cope with all of it - basically the news every day is horrifying to me.
.I can't say that either extreme of paying attention or not is helping anything; I've had days when I read a lot of news and feel really anxious, but I've also had a few days in a row when I need to focus on other things, and then when I return I'm horrified anew. And I personally kind of think it's morally irresponsible to try to ignore it, even though I also feel like I'm extremely limited in how I can affect any of it
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).