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Viral Video Has Been Viewed Over One Million Times TODAY, Because It Is Perfect: ‘Trump Has No Plan’

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Trump has been talking about his plans for national healthcare since he announced he was running. He spent speech after speech on the campaign trail launching attacks at “Obamacare,” while saying that he’d have Obamacare repealed on “Day One,” and have a cheaper, better plan. Amazingly, Trump had a GOP Senate and Congress his first two years, and yet he was never able to destroy Obamacare, never mind submit his own plan. John McCain left Democrats a giant gift, perhaps one from the heart of a man dying from cancer, when gave the secretary of the Senate a thumbs down on repeal.

“Senator McCain votes no.” It was that close.

But the major point is that Trump continued to promise a healthcare plan and right now, healthcare is definitely on a lot of people’s minds. Forget momentarily the mortality rates. Only 1% die from the disease (or whatever the number is now) but far more live through it with serious consequences, one of which is medical bills. “Death” isn’t the only consideration. From Google:

Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing special treatment, and for the majority – especially for children and young adults – illness due to COVID-19 is generally minor. However, for some people it can cause serious illness.

Around 1 in every 5 people who are infected with COVID-19 develop difficulty in breathing and require hospital care. People who are aged over 60 years, and people who have underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease or hypertension are among those who are at greater risk.

It is difficult to tell if they’re saying one in five people need hospitalization, or one in five people suffer from difficulty breathing, and some percentage of those people need hospitalization. Regardless, the point is that many people will have serious medical bills due to “living through” COVID.

Chris Wallace challenged Trump two weeks ago, saying he’s been in office three and a half years and has never put out a healthcare plan to be voted upon. Trump told Wallace he had a plan that he alone could order, citing the SCOTUS’s recent DACA case, it’s unknown whether he can even do that, but he’d order it within two weeks.

That was two weeks ago. Perhaps because healthcare is so dearly important to Americans now, the promise and the failure has real power. It is self-evident that Trump has no plan and one million people have jumped on this message today:

There is a reason that the Meidas Touch video is hitting Twitter so hard. The failure to deliver this time on his promise demonstrates to everyone willing to watch that he simply has no plan. Period. And probably never will.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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