>> One of the worst answers Trump gave during his Town Hall on ABC had to do with pre-existing
conditions. Let's watch >> Should pre-existing conditions which Obamacare
brought to fruition be removed- >> No.
>> Without, please stop and let me finish my question, sir. Should that be removed?
Within a 36 to 72 hour period without my medication, I will be dead. And I wanna know what it is
that you're gonna do to assure that people like me who work hard, we do everything we're
supposed to do, can stay insured. It's not my fault that I was born with this disease.
It's not my fault that I'm a black woman and in the medical community I'm minimized and
not taken seriously. >> Now, before I get to Trump's disastrous
answer, I have to know that That woman was incredible. Her question was on point. The
way that she asked that question was awesome.
And I love the fact that she didn't allow him to interrupt her because that is an important
question that many Americans are concerned about especially when you consider the fact
that Donald Trump and his administration is fighting very, very hard to repeal the Affordable
Care Act. And so let's go to Trump's answer where he utilizes the same tactic that you
can expect, just flat out lie.
>> We are not going to hurt anything having to do with pre-existing conditions. We're
not gonna hurt pre-existing conditions. And in fact just the opposite, if you look at
what they wanna do, where they have socialized medicine, they will get rid of pre-existing
conditions. If they go into Medicare for All, which is socialized medicine and you could
forget about your doctors and your plans just like you could forget under President Obama.
What we're doing is we're going to be doing a health care plan, protecting people with
pre-existing conditions as an example, yourself. It sounds like that's exactly perfect. That's
exactly what we're talking about. We're going to be doing a health care plan very strongly
and protect people with pre-existing conditions.
Donald Trump has been in office for more than three and a half years. He has the power to
get Congressional lawmakers to pass what he believes would be a better health care plan
compared to the Affordable Care Act. But we haven't seen Republicans or the Trump administration
specifically propose anything to replace Obamacare with.
And luckily George Stephanopoulos did call Trump out on that. Let's take a look at that
video. >> I just have to stop you there because it
just on a couple of points. Number one, Joe Biden has ran against Medicare for All in
the primaries. But much more importantly, Obamacare guaranteed people with pre-existing
conditions could buy insurance.
Guaranteed they could buy it as the same price as everyone else. Guaranteed a package of
essential benefits, guaranteed that insurance companies couldn't put a lifetime limit on
those benefits. You fought to repeal Obamacare, you're arguing-
>> Well, essentially >> You're arguing the Supreme Court right
now to strike it down.
That would do away with pre-existing conditions, so you've promised-
>> No, we can do new health care. >> But you've been promising a new health
care plan. I interviewed you in June of last year. You said the health care plan would
come in two weeks. You told Chris Wallace this summer, would come in three weeks.
You promised an executive order on pre-existing- >> I have it already.
>> But you've been trying to strike down pre-existing conditions.
>> I have it already and it's a much better plan. We have run it really well. But we also
have now other if you go Department of Labor, a great secretary, as you know, and you know
him well.
>> I have it already. I have it already. We're not asking you about herpes. We're asking
you about health care policy. >> But john, I'd like you to jump in and share
your- >> Yeah.
>> Thoughts on this. Because he just lies. >> Precisely.
>> It drives me crazy.
>> Yeah, it's just 100% lie. Like best case scenario, what is he got like a scrawled drawing
of Dr. Mario in his pocket. That's the closest he's got-
>> To a health care plan already. >> No, as Stephanopoulos points out, it's
always two weeks away that you're gonna see it.
It's two weeks away a month ago. It's two weeks ago, a year ago. You've been president
for literally years, where's your plan? You don't control all of government now, I get
that. How many times has Nancy Pelosi been forced to block your healthcare plan? Has
that ever happened?
Of course it hasn't happened because you don't have one. Your first priority was to kill
the ACA. You tried to do that, thankfully, it didn't work. There was no replacement even
being discussed at that point. When that failed you went to the Supreme Court, which Stephanopoulos
mentioned there.
You're just destroying it. Maybe someday there will be some sort of plan, but we haven't
seen anything about that, certainly doesn't seem like a priority. The Democrats at least
did put those protections in. And how many people watching this think that if Obama had
failed to pass the ACA back more than a decade ago and then like I don't know, Romney become
president, that he would have prioritized it.
Like who actually thinks that at this point. And certainly not Donald Trump, he doesn't
care at all. They're trying to destroy it right now, like-
>> Yep. >> It's like an obsession of theirs. And in
terms of the plan that he supposedly has right now, he said again last night that it would
be coming just like his immigration plan, he said last night is two to three weeks away.
So today Kayleigh McEnany was asked about that. What are the details of the plan? And
she said I'm not here to tell you details of the President's
>> Proposals, but that's literally what you're supposed to be. That that's the only thing
you're supposed- >> Yeah.
>> To be there for.
And it was a bad day for her to be claiming that because during Congressional testimony
today, multiple top officials in the Trump administration involved in health policy said
they're not aware of literally anything. And so again, maybe picture of-
>> Yeah. >> Dr. Mario, but that's probably as detailed
as it is right now.
>> No, you're absolutely right about that. And I did some digging because who knows,
maybe there's something that Donald Trump maybe casually talked about in one of his
unhinged press conferences. And I did come across one thing that he said last month,
August 7, to be specific, he floated the idea of completely repealing the Affordable Care
Act to the Supreme Court.
That's what his administration is actually working on right now. And then he would use
an executive order to protect people with preexisting conditions but he can't do that.
So let me give you the details. No executive, okay. He says over the next two weeks, this
again, is a statement he made August 7th, 2020.
Over the next two weeks, I'll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance
companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all customers. That's a big thing. I've
always been very strongly in favor. This has never been done before. Except like it's currently
being implemented through the Affordable Care Act, which he's trying to repeal.
And luckily, the Associated Press called that out saying no executive order is needed to
protect people with preexisting medical conditions because Obamacare already does that, and it's
the law of the land. If Trump persuades the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care
Act as unconstitutional, it's unclear what degree of protection an executive order would
offer in place of the law.
In fact, Larry Levitt, who's the executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation,
said I can't imagine what authority the President could invoke to require insurers, private
insurers, to cover preexisting conditions if the supreme court does throw the ACA out.
There is no magic wand you can wave to just make it so.
So like, but he doesn't care. I mean, he has bragged about executive orders that did nothing.
For instance, he had bragged that he passed an executive order to lower the cost of prescription
drugs for Medicare recipients. Did that actually happen? No. Did he enforce it? No. Did it
mean anything?
No. >> Yeah. Everything is, he's a reality star
host. Everything is about the superficial appearance or aesthetic of doing something
for people when in reality behind the scenes, it's nothing more than a ridiculous marketing
ploy to get people to support him. But he leaves people in the dark all the time.
He leaves people out to suffer all the time. What amazes me is that as his supporters are
suffering from his inaction, his incompetence, his lack of leadership, his lack of compassion
empathy, they still think that he's working for them, and he's just not. It's amazing.
>> Yeah, and remember back during the 2016 campaign, he was in support of like healthcare
for everyone, literally a government plan that would insure everyone.
Where has that been, he's only been president for three years. And I guess he's gonna get
around it with sometime. And I love that it's gonna be for the first time. It's gonna be
protected when it's already been done. It's like him passing veterans choice, which he
didn't do, it was the previous president.
It's kinda a cool way to live your life, To just take everyone's accomplishments for your
own and then claim that you're great to have thought of. Like I know, I'm already busy,
I've gotta show, The Damage Report, but I really wanna start a show, that does like
deep dives in a particular areas of policy and so, I'm gonna do that.
I'm call it no filter. It's never been done before on TYT Network.
>> It's gonna be mine. Somebody had to do it someday, so I'm gonna do it. You're welcome,
America. >> You know what, I'm gonna pass a Casperian
order that indicates that- >> The Damage Report is actually a show hosted
by me not by a man named John Iadarola.
Anyway- >> You're making a wish, but-
>> Michelle from our comments section, members comments section and you can become a member
by going to tyt.com/join. Michelle writes in and says, Trump supporters are already
attacking the woman who asked the question during the Town Hall calling her rude, trying
to finish your question is not being rude.
And I agree. I think that she asked the type of question that so many Americans want to
ask, want the answer to and I give her a tremendous amount of credit because I agree. There is
some level of courage that you need to have in order to stand up to Trump publicly because
his base
is vicious.