After years of Trump telling us he’s going to have an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, Senate Majority Leader John Thune continues to pretend they want to do anything other than destroy it, and return to the mess we had before it was enacted.
Here’s Thune on CNBC this Thursday admitting affordability is a problem, and lying that Trump would be willing to sit down and negotiate anything in good faith with Democrats on health insurance:
KERNEN: The reason that so many of these premiums are going up with Obamacare isn’t just because of the expiration of the subsidies. And that’s part of the problem. The overall ACA needs to be looked at. at this point, it seems like the president is starting… Is he starting to put some pressure to get something done? And I won’t say fold, but to concede to the Democrats.
You know, that the way the system is right now, you do need to probably increase subsidies at some point because it’s just not working. I mean, health care costs… Obamacare premiums don’t pay for the kind of health care you’re getting right now. It has to be subsidized.
THUNE: And partly because Obamacare, at its core, is inflationary. It’s been driving up costs. I mean, the fundamental problem here is the underlying program, which again, needs to be reformed. And the president wants to do that.
