News item: Last night at his Bedminster golf club "press conference," moron vector Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump had a HUGE announcement to make: he would be "pursuing" an executive order making coverage of pre-existing conditions mandatory for insurance companies. Needless to say, there were plenty of folks happy to point out something about that announcement:
Trump says he's looking at doing an executive order to require health care providers to cover preexisting conditions, which is already the law of the land thanks to the Affordable Care Act he hates so much pic.twitter.com/2EG5iL9DCA— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2020
Trump has no shame. Tonight, he’s promising an executive order to protect people with pre-existing conditions when that’s already the law. The ACA does just that and he’s been trying to repeal it for years. Shameless!— Rep. Frank Pallone (@FrankPallone) August 8, 2020
The President must be kidding with this “executive order.”
(1) Pre-existing conditions are *already* covered by law (ACA / “Obamacare”);
(2) Trump administration just argued that the Supreme Court must strike down the entire ACA, including coverage for pre-existing conditions.— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) August 8, 2020
Trump says he's "pursuing" an executive order to require all health insurance companies to "cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers." Trump says, "This has never been done before." (Pre-existing-condition protections currently exist in Obamacare, a law.)— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 7, 2020
📣 ANY reporter/media outlet which reports/tweets about Trump's XO "ordering" insurance companies to "cover pre-existing conditions" without mentioning that THE ACA ALREADY DOES THIS and TRUMP IS SUING TO STRIKE DOWN THE ACA is guilty of journalistic malpractice.— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) August 8, 2020
So, after talking for weeks about an imminent health care plan, this is what they come up with? Is it to provide cover for the Republican Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act in the pending cases, most likely after the election as a final f.u. to Democrats? Regardless, there are millions of low information voters who might buy this as an "alternative" to the ACA, even though loss of coverage, junk policies and unaffordable premiums would be some of the ways the insurance industry would likely respond in an ACA- free America.
Democrats and the media can't let them get away with this COVID Donnie con job.
Meanwhile, the event turned into more of a mini- rally, with club members ($350,000 membership fee) assembled mostly mask- less and with their wine glasses to cheer COVID Donnie, while no action is taken to help unemployed Americans:
.@joyannreid: "Did you just say members of (Trump's) country club ... are assembling to play the audience so he can have a cheering audience for this press conference?"@JonLemire: "Joy, that is what it appears."#TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/JxRxuQt9RA— The ReidOut (@thereidout) August 7, 2020
