President Donald Trump is predicting that Democrats and Republicans will “eventually come together “on a new health care plan for the country.
Sending a Twitter post early Tuesday from his Florida resort, Trump said “the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate has been terminated as part of our Tax Cut Bill, which essentially Repeals (over time) Obamacare.”
Much of former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act remains intact, however, and the sign-up period for the various options was carried out as normal this year.
Majority Republicans sought repeatedly to repeal the 2010 law this year, but couldn’t get it through the Senate.
Trump his wife, Melania, and their son, Barron, spent X-Mas at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
(AP)
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That is not likely unless the Republicans agree to a “single payer” (meaning abolition of employer based health insurance), and the Democrats agree to a system based on “choice” (probably vouchers), similar to the current Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (the largest in the country) that guarantees an inexpensive bottom level of care and allows people to purchase more.
And of course no Democrat will support anything Trump proposes (and vice versa), so it would require someone with great prestige in both parties to co-sponsor the plan.