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President-elect Donald Trump appeared open Friday to compromising on his oft-repeated pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare -- citing a conversation with none other than President Barack Obama himself.
But the openness was complicated by a shift in the official positions listed on his website.
The comments, made in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, signal less of a policy shift for Trump than a change from the rhetoric that helped win him the presidency just three days ago and could set up a fight with conservatives.
Trump told the paper he was reconsidering his stance after Thursday's meeting with Obama, who urged him to protect parts of the law. Trump said he would like to keep the provision forbidding discrimination based on pre-existing conditions and to allow young Americans to remain on their parents' healthcare plans.
"Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced," he said, acknowledging that it was Obama, who met with Trump in the Oval Office for 90 minutes, who encouraged him to reconsider. "I told him I will look at his suggestions, and out of respect, I will do that."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/donald-trump-obamacare-interview/index.html
Maybe he rode the angry populist platform just to get elected. As Thing and I have noticed, his previous statements and platforms about infrastructure and health care, appear very much in line with what Obama wanted. I thought he may have been a stooge for Hillary, but what if he really was the only one who cared about the silent majority and will work for them, but do it through policies that the right would abhor simply because a Democrat was for it.
I don't think the left fear mongering about Trump has much merit.
But the openness was complicated by a shift in the official positions listed on his website.
The comments, made in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, signal less of a policy shift for Trump than a change from the rhetoric that helped win him the presidency just three days ago and could set up a fight with conservatives.
Trump told the paper he was reconsidering his stance after Thursday's meeting with Obama, who urged him to protect parts of the law. Trump said he would like to keep the provision forbidding discrimination based on pre-existing conditions and to allow young Americans to remain on their parents' healthcare plans.
"Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced," he said, acknowledging that it was Obama, who met with Trump in the Oval Office for 90 minutes, who encouraged him to reconsider. "I told him I will look at his suggestions, and out of respect, I will do that."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/donald-trump-obamacare-interview/index.html
Maybe he rode the angry populist platform just to get elected. As Thing and I have noticed, his previous statements and platforms about infrastructure and health care, appear very much in line with what Obama wanted. I thought he may have been a stooge for Hillary, but what if he really was the only one who cared about the silent majority and will work for them, but do it through policies that the right would abhor simply because a Democrat was for it.
I don't think the left fear mongering about Trump has much merit.
The swamp critters probably told trump that immediately repealing the law would be the kiss of death to his administration.