Problem solution the GOP keeps ignoring for
raw political gain
I have said
for a very long time, and all sorts of “fact checking” has proven me and millions of others, indeed the
whole country (if we'd be honest) about it and that is this: Donald J. Trump is a serial, compulsive, pathological liar” or as we could say using his own words: “I am the best in history — believe me — the best ever.”
Lying is in his DNA and thus habitual to his very core –whatever that is remains to be discovered. His latest string of lies documented here from an excellent fact checker, Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post, with this introduction. And, another reminder, from NPR here:
Lying is in his DNA and thus habitual to his very core –whatever that is remains to be discovered. His latest string of lies documented here from an excellent fact checker, Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post, with this introduction. And, another reminder, from NPR here:
President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today
on October 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans — known
as “Medicare-For-All” — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading
statement or a falsehood.
Many of
these are claims we have already debunked. Presumably the president is aware of
our fact checks — he even links to one — but chose to ignore the facts in
service of a campaign-style op-ed. “Medicare-For-All” is a complex subject, and
serious questions could be raised about the cost and how a transition from
today’s health-care system would be financed.
Trump
correctly notes that studies have estimated the program – under the version
promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – would add $36 trillion in costs to the
federal government over ten years. But this is not a serious effort to debate
the issue.
So as a
reader service, we offer a guide through Trump’s rhetoric.
Whole story
at the link above.
My 2 Cents: Not belittle or minimize this proposal “Medicare-for-All”
but I have called for any kind of “one-payer” system (and Medicare is a good
working model) for years –but I have never had the public platform to push it
with any authority.
Any kind of good reasonable “one-payer” system would
solve a world of problems the least of which would be to take the damn politics
and trickery out of the issue and allow people to get the best possible care
from the greatest doctors in the world.
So, stay tuned – and BTW: The voters must weigh in –
don’t follow the old stale hype we have heard for years about bad it would be –
instead rationalize how good it would be to have good decent health care for
everyone without the political BS we have today.
More related articles here, too:
(The AP)
(USA Today)
(PolitiFact)
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