10-01-2020, 03:21 PM
(10-01-2020, 03:03 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Yep, asking Trump to not interrupt him as he asked questions, asking Trump to let him ask the questions rather than Trump asking questions, and asking Trump to answer the questions he asked was clearly biased behavior on Wallace's part.
WALLACE:
Mr President, the Supreme Court will hear a case, a week after the election, in which the Trump administration, along with 18 state attorneys general are seeking to overturn Obamacare, to end Obamacare. You have sent the last --
TRUMP:
Because I want to give good healthcare. Good healthcare.
WALLACE:
If I may ask that question, sir. Over the last four years you have promised to repeal and replace Obamacare but you have never in these four years, come up with a plan, a comprehensive plan, to replace Obamacare.
TRUMP:
Yes I have. Of course I have. I'll get rid of the individual mandate which was added. That is absolutely a big thing, that was the worst part of Obamacare. The worst part of Obamacare. Well, I’ll ask Joe. The individual mandate was the most unpopular aspect of Obamacare. I got rid of it.
WALLACE:
I am the moderator in this debate. And I would like you to let me ask my question and then you can answer.
TRUMP:
Go ahead.
WALLACE:
You, in the course of these four years, have never come up with a comprehensive plan to replace Obamacare, and just this last Thursday, you signed a largely symbolic executive order to protect people with pre-existing conditions, five days before this debate. So my question sir is, what is the Trump healthcare plan.
TRUMP:
Well, first of all, I guess I'm debating you not him, but that's okay, I’m not surprised. Let me just tell you something. That has nothing symbolic. I'm cutting drug prices, I'm going with favored nations which no president has encouraged to do because you're going against big pharma. Drug prices will be coming down, 80 or 90%. You could have done it during your 47 year period in government but you didn't do it, nobody's done it. So we're cutting health care, all of the things that we've done -- insulin. I‘ll give an example: insulin. It's going to, it was destroying families -- destroyed people, the cost -- ‘I'm getting it for so cheap; it's like water.’ You want to know the truth, so cheap. Take a look at all of the drugs that --- what we're doing, prescription drug prices, we're going to allow our governors now to go to other countries to buy drugs because when they make just a tiny fraction -- this is big stuff.
Sure sounds like a guy with dementia.
Trump hasn’t lowered the cost of medications by a single penny despite the unsubstantiated hyperbole and toothless executive orders that support coverage for pre-existing conditions made into law by Obamacare. Hell, goodrx.com has done more to reduce prescription prices than Trump.
Medicare/Medicaid is still prohibited from negotiating cheap prices directly with manufacturers because every time Democrat’s suggest this Republicans accuse them of socialism and a government take over of medicine to elicit a knee jerk reaction from voters.
So f’n frustrating.
