Zeke Emanuel: ‘Laughable’ that Trump’s Promising Great Health Care Plan

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EMANUEL: "Oh, well, the real world implications are pretty dire. Remember, about 22 million people got coverage through the Affordable Care Act. Those people would lose coverage. People who have preexisting conditions, and let me remind you, 133 million Americans have a chronic illness, they would presumably see their insurance change if they’re trying to buy insurance on the individual market. People who got coverage through Medicaid would lose that coverage. There are many other provisions, cost-controlled provisions trying to actually make the system more efficient for everyone to keep the cost of health care down. Those would go out the door because the center for Medicaid and Medicare services would not have the funds to actually implement many of them. This would be far reaching, hospitals, insurance companies, doctors would not know what the actual structure of the system is. And then you have to say, President Trump really has chutzpah to say, 'We’ll come up with an alternative plan that’s better than ObamaCare.' Really? We’ve been waiting nine years to hear what the Republican plan is. There’s no Republican plan that covers people comprehensively, that gives people with preexisting conditions protections, and that controls costs. They have never outlined or introduced such a plan because they don’t have a plan. And the idea they’re going to come up with one in two or three months, that is laughable."