All he needs is another 5%
Our talking heads, our leftist twits , our progressive finger waggers are all having an aneurism because they were EXPECTING TRUMP TO MODERATE AND DO THINGS THAT PLEASED THEM.
I wonder where they got this idea, other than it just was one of those things they just assumed they were entitled to, like respect and deference.
I have written before about the ‘dense pack’ tactic Trump is throwing at the entire DC establishment. He is going to drop at least two outrages a day , every day, and three on Sunday.
Media combat tactics, if the media cannot mount an effective outrage campaign because the next outrage just occurred as “Breaking News” it is the equivalent of blinding their offence.
So sit back and follow what is happening. Trump knows if he can get jobs rolling and stay out of serious war, he gets re-elected. He also knows if he makes most people happy with a return to private health insurance with a few bells and whistles, he gets re-elected.
He also knows if he can get some inner city schools showing promise, he will get another 5% of the minority vote. (mostly the working class)
The working class and the lower middle class is 64% of the electorate. All he has to do is get another 5% and keep his current voters.
He does not have to moderate at all. Not one bit. He will drive the ‘moderate middle, which has always been progressives with pearls and mortgages and the farther left insane. We will have Progressive donors having to offer health insurance to professional thugs since they will be full time employees.
The media will fracture even farther. They looked in the mirror after the election and decided to break the mirror. They learned nothing.
It is going to be fun fun fun until Daddy tells Milo to come home.
Just a rant folks, but the sight of so many clueless people waiting for the man to change is just too damn funny.
The only problem is we are not returning to private health insurance, not now or ever and Trump has shown no inclination otherwise. Certainly the big government spendaholics in Congress have no interest in private/free market anything.
Healthcare has a near vertical demand curve and we have memorialized it as a right that trumps all others.
There isn’t a way to do a hyrbrid public/private market. All that would do is reduce premiums and raise taxes astronomically.
And have providers trading services for zucchini and tomatoes.
We had a private market with oligopolies defined by state insurance commissions. If we return to one with private insurers able to create product which can meet consumer needs and sell across state line, that would improve on what we have and what we had.
I am assuming pre existing gets treated similar to an assigned risk pool for car insurance.
To me, that is better than what we have with complete definition being done from congress and their staffs plus the DC regulators.
If the private insurers can create products with minimum predefinition by congress, I will take that as a win.
If you are hoping for a pure , unregulated private medical system as your gauge, I agree, we will not ever see that.
Your points are well made, but there isn’t really such a thing as a high risk pool for health insurance that is analogous to motor insurance.
The issue isn’t people living risky lifestyles potentially consuming health care expense. The issues is continuing health care.
It is important to make the distinction between health insurance – protection for an unexpected illness or accident and health care which is a known ongoing expense.
I believe we agree. I was merely trying to get the ‘pre-existing condition’ political football off the concept of insurance and allow risk to be defined actuarialy and the pre-existing ‘ premium to ride on top
“He also knows if he can get some inner city schools showing promise, he will get another 5% of the minority vote.”
This comment brought to mind a very interesting article I read recently in NR about the failing of inner city schools.
It suggested that those who want to send their kids to better schools should move if at all possible. As a prime example, the black middle class in Detroit has made a remarkable shift to the suburbs in the past ten years. Not only has downtown Detroit experienced “white flight” but a middle class socio-economic drain as well. Trump might suggest that we move welfare funds to a “moving fund” if said recipients have landed a job outside the squalor of the ghettos.
In the meantime, the riverfront section of urban Detroit (still lovely) has become “infested” with young techies who have earned degrees from Michigan and Michigan State and do not choose to move to Chicago or New York. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and never even considered looking for a job in the metropolitan area upon graduation, so this is a relatively new and exciting prospect for the Wolverine state!
I bring this up because it sounds very “Trumpish” although, oddly enough, he and Michigan’s Governor Snyder (another great entrepreneur) are not particularly friendly.