Kissinger and Trump

President Donald Trump has a great new plan to save Henry Kissinger — and everybody else — from "failed Obamacare."

Trump on Tuesday said he will "be signing something, probably this week, which is going to go a long way to take care of many of the people that have been so badly hurt on health care."

  CNBC

As if Henry Kissinger has any problem getting good health care!

Kissinger, at age 94, has been eligible for health coverage from the federally operated, single-payer system Medicare for three decade. He therefore does not have to buy an Obamacare plan, much less ones that have seen a 116 percent price hike.

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"Henry Kissinger does not want to pay a 116 percent increase in his premiums," Trump said in the Oval Office while seated next to the former secretary of State.

"But that's what's happening, and it actually getting worse. It's getting worse by the minute," Trump said, after tapping a grinning Kissinger on the arm.

Jesus, these people are disgusting.

Trump has frequently cited the 116 percent figure, which refers to the average increase for Obamamcare plans sold in Arizona this year.

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Publicly available rate requests for other states so far show that the highest hike sought is about half of 116 percent — the 57.5 percent increase sought by Blue Cross Blue Shield in Georgia.

And that insurer's big rate rise is largely due to Trump himself, according to a report last week.

The Protect Our Care Campaign, a leading Obamacare advocacy group, in its report noted that in the 28 states whose approved rates have been made public, 20, including Georgia attribute their rate increases in part to the Trump administration threatening not to pay insurers billions of dollars in reimbursements owed them under the Affordable Care Act.

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Larry Levitt, a leading Obamacare expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, on Tuesday said that if Trump's executive order includes, as reported, a loosening of restrictions on short-term health insurance, it could lead to a "collapse" of the Obamacare markets.

If you can't repeal it, sabotage it.

Looks like Dorothy poured a bucket of water on another evil witch.  Melllllllllting.

Or, alternatively, "still instrumental in getting innocent people killed." 

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.