They have me standing at the grave of a beautiful soldier
“They have me standing at the grave of a beautiful soldier”
The president explains his healthcare plan to Rush’s audience, October 9, 2020:
RUSH: Probably one of the most mentioned topics in the questions was healthcare. People are scared. Let me give you a sample question. “Dear President Trump…” This is a woman in Massachusetts named Kathy. “I’m glad that you and the First Lady are recovering from COVID. So happy you are our president. Thank you for all you do to defend us. My question is about healthcare and preexisting conditions, very important to me and a lot of Americans. I believe you said preexisting conditions will be covered in your healthcare plan. But please, could you explain this a little more?”
TRUMP: I will. The Democrats are vicious, and they lie. What they do is, as an example, healthcare and other things, they have me standing at a grave of a beautiful soldier in an old cemetery, magnificent cemetery. And nobody respects soldiers more than I do, especially whether you’re talking about live soldiers or soldiers that gave their lives. They have a source say these are suckers and losers. This was for a magazine that’s third-rate, super liberal Obama magazine, and it’s a quote. They took that quote from one source. I have 25 people that verbally on the record said that was never said.
Who would ever say that? Only an animal would say that. I know some very bad people. Nobody do I know that would say a thing like that. They put it in ads, they make it like I said it. I never said it, just the opposite. I’ve taken care of the military better than anybody.
They do the same thing with healthcare. They will make up a statement that’s so bad. Now, preexisting conditions, I’m totally for it, but I’m against Obamacare because Obamacare is too expensive. I already got rid of the individual mandate, which was the worst part of Obamacare. That’s where you had to pay a fortune for the privilege of not paying for bad health insurance. You understand that, right?
RUSH: Yes, sir.
TRUMP: So I got rid of it, and I got rid of it through the law. I got rid of it in our tax decrease. We got the biggest tax decrease in the history of our country. We would have never been able to build up the economy if we didn’t get that. But one of the things I got in there, I got rid of the individual mandate. What I want to do is… And we’re fighting to terminate. Sort of I have terminated Obamacare, because once you get rid of the individual mandate it’s no longer Obamacare.
But I had a choice to make, Rush. It was a big choice. Do I maintain Obamacare, the remnants of Obamacare after the mandate? Do I maintain it well, or do I run it badly? I could have done it either way. I have very good people over there, Alex Azar and Seema, the whole group. I said, you know what, we’ve got to run it as well as it can be run. I have no choice. I could have run it badly and made everybody angry, but I didn’t do that. I ran it really well.
Knowing that it’s run really well, it’s still no good. It’s still not good. It’s much better than when they ran it. They couldn’t even do… Remember, they spent $5 billion on the server, if you remember. They couldn’t get the server right.
RUSH: Oh, I do remember. I do remember. But there still is this confusion about preexisting conditions out there. It’s a frustrating thing because it’s not even the correct title for what the plan does-
TRUMP: That’s correct.
RUSH: … but that’s what people think, and so that’s how you-
TRUMP: Come up with a great health care plan that’s much less expensive and does include people with preexisting conditions, that’s what I want to do. Now, they’ll also say about Social Security-