Donald Trump has been promising the American folks that he’ll reveal his healthcare plan in two weeks for a decade.
Trump’s voluntary offers with drug firms spotlight how the president thinks healthcare ought to function in the USA.
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The mainstream media ran with the headline that Trump struck a deal to decrease the price of weight reduction medication, however ignored just a few essential factors. The medication would nonetheless value $149/month. The $149 worth solely covers the capsule type of the bottom dose. If you wish to use an injectable, that’s nonetheless going to be costly. Suppose an individual wants a better dose, too dangerous. That can value extra.
The Trump scheme counts on the American individuals having an additional $149/month sitting round that they will spend on weight reduction medication, and they’ll be capable to take capsule type, and wish the bottom dose.
That’s a variety of superb print. Essentially the most essential half is that the deal solely includes two producers and is totally voluntary.
Thursday’s weight reduction medication announcement did present perception into Trump’s mentality that healthcare shouldn’t be a proper, and the standard of care an individual receives must be primarily based on how a lot cash they’ve.
In different phrases, Donald Trump desires to take America again to the damaged US healthcare system of the times earlier than Obamacare.
The concept Trump floated on Saturday can be flat-out lethal for the American individuals.
Learn Trump’s horrible thought beneath.
