“Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.”
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trump’s lame duck term, which will begin in January.
Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan, El-Sayed was asked if he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who a night earlier pronounced that he wasn’t so sure that if Democratic majorities in the US House and Senate passed a Medicare for All Bill that Trump wouldn’t sign it.
“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I’m ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things,” said El-Sayed.
Not even the “concept” of a plan the orange dumbass insisted he had at the debate.
It we get universal healthcare I do not give a fuck whose name is on it. Hell the republicans might be less likely to try and kill it if their godking’s name is on it.
Ever since he was a presidential candidate, President Donald Trump has been promising the American people a “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic” new health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
WE’RE WAITING
Ten years, no healthcare plan. Good job, Trump
I mean it depends what the policy actually looks like but yeah. We need to vote for policy over people.
I’ve said this about Cuba. Trump is so desperate to make “deals” with other countries where they (pretend) to invest in the US and buy American products. Cuba is right there and they would genuinely love to be able to trade products like sugar for American-made goods (not because they are American, but just because the blockade locks them out of buying necessary things like capital equipment for power plants). If Trump removed the blockade on Cuba (as much as the president can unilaterally) I don’t doubt Diaz-Canel would get up there and praise Trump and call him an incredible deal-making president and actually commit to buy US goods; and if he had to throw in a sweetened deal for a hotel in Havana, sure whatever. So I think it’s telling that there was news a while back that Rubio was personally blocking the Cuban delegation from being able to talk directly to Trump, I think he knew if that happened then the Cubans and Trump would have a lot of common ground to work from.
This is the true art of the deal. Give the narcissistic baby his name recognition on legislation that will actually help the people.
I’ve heard others talk like this. There’s hope that Trump is so desperate to save some portion of his legacy, that he’ll sign whatever the Dems send him, so he can take credit.
But there’s something else that matters more: Prison. He can sign all sorts of great legislation, but he’s STILL going to prison, and THAT’S what he’ll be remembered for most.
Besides, he has PeeWee Himmler acting as his Wormtail, whispering poison into the demented king’s ear. He’ll never allow Trump to sign healthcare regulation that would save thousands of lives, especially those who can’t afford healthcare.
He’s never going to prison. You are living in a fantasy dream.
It’s a legal precedent nobody in DC wants to set.
genius
Genius. He knows how to work his audience.
They can call it whatever the fuck they want.
Ideally it covers everyone for everything your doctor seems medically necessary. But I’ll take whatever stepping stone we can get.
When they said they’d offer cheaper prescription meds on TrumpRX I decided I’d rather die than use that site.
It’s not like we’re not all going to call it HabibiCare anyway
I’m down
Your name will be torn off everything after you are out of power, everybody hates you, and your supporters will pretend they weren’t. You are the devil, but not really because you are so fucking stupid.
The big beautiful obituary is coming! Old man time has his hands around this bitch’s throat.
Sure why not. We can always rename it later.
Noone would call it Trump care the day after 🤣 it’ll just be Medicare for all
No-one wants to be associated with the orange pedo
The Affordable Care Act is still called Obamacare
People don’t mind being associated with Obama.
I’d call it TrumpCare. So what? I’d just be glad to have it. TrumpCare would be easier/quicker to say than Medicare For All, too.
Yes, the name is irrelevant.
Whatever it’s called you’ll be amazed by how few times you ever have to say it once you have it.
The only times I’ve had to use a word for the “universal healthcare” that we have (which doesn’t have a name) is when trying to describe it to people who don’t have it already. Everyone in the world except America will understand “healthcare” in this way to begin with. If you really need to explain something that is not, you’d explicitly use “private healthcare” or “insurance” for anything else.
It would be funny though if it was named after his wife: ‘“I don’t really care, do you?”- care"’
I wouldn’t even feel bad calling it Trump Care if they call it that and he signs it.
It would redefine his legacy.
Right now, he’s set to go down in history for dividing the nation, being twice impeached, having 34 felonies, weaponizing cruelty as policy, and egomania.
Passing Medicare For All as “Trump-Care” would change the conversation to, “Sure, he divided the nation, was twice impeached, was a convicted felon, weaponized cruelty as a matter of policy, and was an egomaniac, but we have him to thank for finally getting us universal healthcare.”
It’s really a no-brainer.
Without the Civil Rights Act of 1965, LBJ would have just been the guy who helped introduce oil money into national politics, literally stole his way into the senate, lucked into becoming President, and ramped up the Vietnam War. So there is a precedent.
Don’t forget the penis! That’s mostly what I know of him.
Johnson & his Johnson(+bunghole)
Honestly it would be a massive troll and I’m all for it
We’d just be omitting the implied “Doesn’t” from the middle.
