Brett (Brett Meiselas)
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That's like, yeah, this is our system as it is now.
And I wish there was another plan out there also, by the way.
Y'all killed the public option back in the day that was supposed to be in Obamacare.
This is the best solution that the country is able to actually had passed.
Donald Trump constantly says, we're going to have a plan.
We're going to have a plan.
Hey, we made a video now.
i don't know six years ago eight years ago i can't remember i guess not that long ago because we didn't exist then but in the very beginning of midas touch we made a video showing donald trump uh from the very beginning of his campaign and before back to 2015 saying i'm gonna have a new healthcare plan and when did he say it you all know because it's become a punchline at this point in two weeks in two weeks it's the best healthcare plan you're ever gonna see two weeks best healthcare plan
Well, it is now many, many years, more than a decade later, and we still have not seen these plans at all materialize because the Republican plan for healthcare is to strip out all these protections to make it so that
The corporations, the insurance companies are the ones who are benefiting to make it so people who have pre-existing conditions are able to get denied coverage.
Because if you want to know their plan, that's their plan.
The reason they don't pen to paper is because they know how horrible that is going to look.
I know there's certainly a lot of criticism you could levy at the Affordable Care Act and obviously our private insurance system, which I think is a complete and total disaster.
But if you compare what we have now to what we had before the Affordable Care Act, I mean, it's night and day.
I mean, to have a preexisting condition before Obamacare and to not be able to get treatment, I mean, it's like pandemonium.
It's unbelievable.
It's beyond cruel.
And you think, how could this country have even done that?
So hopefully we have this program.
Hopefully we could build on it.