Wadcutter wrote:
Your sources are romper.com; crooksandliars.com; and dailykos.com?
Oh man, you really got all of us with this thread. We thought your were serious. You win. You really had us fooled thinking you were serious. A good early April Fools joke.
I thought people would not like the Washington Post, so I chose sources that I am unfamiliar with, but that I thought might be more liked.
Here's a WaPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/12/heres-why-trump-is-already-waffling-on-obamacare/
Trump would likely need to turn to the other Republican standby: replacing the Medicare guarantee of coverage for seniors with a voucher that seniors would use to shop for private insurance. In many recent Republican proposals, the voucher amount is set by law to grow less rapidly than underlying medical costs. Effectively, this saves the government money by transferring some of the costs of Medicare to beneficiaries. House Speaker Paul Ryan recently indicated that he wants Medicare privatization to be part of the Obamacare repeal.
Nor would this be the only weight Trump’s policies would place on the elderly. The Affordable Care Act fills in the “doughnut hole” in Medicare’s coverage of prescription drugs — the range of spending where insurance does not pay for any of the cost of medications, and beneficiaries are responsible for the full amount. Repealing the Affordable Care Act shifts these high costs back to less-healthy seniors.
As you can see, this is mainstream news. Apparently the main announcement was on Fox TV.
