45* said yesterday he wasn't aware his Coronavirus Task Force was so popular, so he's decided not to shit-can it after all.
It's "popular". Not that it's important. It's popular. And he didn't know it - right after he crowed about what a great ratings success his briefings have been.
Every day is a new episode of Gaslight Theater.
The Daddy State fucks with us until we become unsure what the truth even looks like. And then they can dictate reality to us.
And, desperate to shore up his support from the GOP dead-enders, 45* has reaffirmed his intent to kill Obamacare.
WaPo:
President Trump said Wednesday he will continue trying to toss out all of the Affordable Care Act, even as some in his administration, including Attorney General William P. Barr, have privately argued parts of the law should be preserved amid a pandemic.
“We want to terminate health care under Obamacare,” Trump told reporters Wednesday, the last day for his administration to change its position in a Supreme Court case challenging the law. “Obamacare, we run it really well. . . . But running it great, it’s still lousy health care.”
While the president has said he will preserve some of the Affordable Care Act’s most popular provisions, including guaranteed coverage for preexisting medical conditions, he has not offered a plan to do so, and his administration’s legal position seeks to end all parts of the law, including those provisions.
That bit about "preserving" guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions is a poison apple.
The GOP plan for that is, and always has been, "High Risk Pools" - the ridiculous notion that you can herd everybody with diabetes or heart disease into a separate group and "insure" them with exorbitantly expensive policies, while raking in billions from people who pay into the system but seldom cost the companies much because generally healthy people don't require a lot of expensive medical care.
Shoe-horning healthcare into a standard demand-based business model doesn't fucking work.
