Trump has a decent health plan. His Of course completely
repeals Obama Care so that people will no longer be forced to buy insurance
unless they want to. He will do basically what Ted Cruz advocated at this
point allowing people to buy and sell health insurance across State lines, but
so long as they meet State health insurance requirements such as catastrophic
care or covering specified conditions by State law. So it is not complete
freedom to buy and sell, but it comes very close. People under Trumps
plan will be able to deduct their health insurance premiums from their taxes. So
if your premium is $4,000 a year or a million a year, the full thing is tax
deductible. He also advocates tax free contributions and inheritable
health savings accounts (HSA's). Trump wants these accounts to accumulate
(presumably including gaining interest) and that when they are inherited that
no death taxes will be applied to them. At the same time, the HSA account
can be used to pay for any member of the family without penalty. Now with
Dr. Ben Carson's endorsement of Donald Trump, these plans may change slightly
to reflect some of Carson's ideas, but this remains to be seen as the overall
plan is really just an outline at this point.
Other changes that Trump wants to do are
just as helpful to health care as Dr. Carson's, Senator Cruz's and Governor
Kasich's ideas. Trump wants to implement a true price transparency law
that would require health professionals, Doctors, and health organizations like
clinics and Doctors to publish their prices for their services. The goal
is to allow consumers to pick and choose the places with the cheapest health
prices for the same quality services. Donald Trump also will block grant
funding for Medicaid. What this means is that the Federal Government that
provides financial support for Medicaid will give States a specified amount of
money per year for States to spend as they wish on Medicaid patients. Mr.
Trump’s logic is that States know more about the needs of their residents and
that States will do a superior job of combating waste, fraud and abuse while
providing healthcare to the needy (this idea is shared between all the
Republican candidates). The final part of his plan will open the market
to drug providers that "offer safer, cheaper and reliable" drugs.
Basically, this means Drug companies from overseas will be able to
compete against domestic drug companies and potentially laws governing generic
drugs and patent rights may be adjusted to increase competition.
Final Thought: Trumps outline of a plan is very
solid and does what most of the other candidates want to do and possibly even a
little more in areas that the other candidates did not think of trying such as
opening the market to overseas drug companies. I am not a fan of Donald
Trump, and I end up about every three weeks saying I would never vote for him.
But then he has stuff like this which can do wonders to help people, and
it forces me to reconsider him again and again. I am still a Cruz guy,
but hey if you like Trump for his mind rather than his mouth (and potentially
loose morals), then it is possible you will not go wrong voting for this guy.
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