Trump is a Loser

Trump is a loser – bigly. He promised that his first priority was to repeal and replace Obamacare. He said he’d provide coverage to more people, for lower cost, and with better care. He worked with Paul Ryan and got a bill created that would result in 24 million people losing coverage.

The bill also allowed insurance companies to reject people for pre-existing conditions, unlike Obamacare. It increased costs to low income people and even to middle income folks over 50 years of age. It also eliminated any requirements for policies to cover maternity care, and of course birth control.

Who benefitted from Trump’s plan? Wealthy people did, because he reduced taxes on them. Insurance companies did because he eliminated requirements they disliked. Insurance executives did, because restrictions on tax deductibility for their salaries were eliminated.

Who opposed the plan? First, hard right wingers did, because they wanted no kind of government related health insurance. Moderate Republicans who were listening to their constituents opposed it, as well. So did doctor’s associations, hospital associations, and AARP.

Trump is a whiner. He said the bill lost because no Democrats supported it, so that made it the fault of the Democrats. He has to be kidding. After eight years of the GOP opposing everything Obama proposed, the Democrats should roll over and back something that only 17% of the voters approved.

Beyond that, not a single Republican, either in the House or the Senate voted for Obamacare. Guess what, Obama and the Democratic leadership got it passed anyhow. How did they do it? Well, they worked to get interest groups behind the bill. They horse traded to get something for enough people to get the necessary support.

Trump calls himself a deal maker and a negotiator. Well if he really were, he’d have been able to negotiate with the various stakeholders and make the deals necessary to get his bill passed. He couldn’t get it done because he is a failure and a loser, who has to blame everyone else for his failures.

Trump is a loser, a whiner, and a failure, who can’t keep his promises or make a deal or negotiate a damned thing except ways to make money for himself. Even then he has to cheat his investors, lenders, contractors, and customers to make money. The only things he is good at are lying, bullshitting, stealing, and selling himself.