trump's health insurance plan

during his presidential campaign, donald trumppromised workers in coal country that if he gets elected, he is absolutely going to bringback all of the coal jobs that have been lost during president obama's administration. now, before we get into the meat of this story,let's just point out a fact. global coal consumption is decreasing everysingle year. we simply don't need more coal. coal companies are filing for bankruptcy leftand right. no fewer than three companies this year, majorcoal companies, filing for bankruptcy, and it had absolutely nothing to do with presidentobama's clean air rules, clean power plant

rules, what have you. it all had to do with a decrease in demandfor coal across the planet. donald trump didn't bother telling that partof the story to the workers in coal country, or for the coal industry who lost their jobs. he just said, 'vote for me. i'm going to bring it back.' it doesn't matter that he can't bring backdemand for a product that is outdated, but the people bought it up. they ate it up.

they loved it. they said, 'thank god this man's going tocome and bring me my coal job back,' but one other thing he promised that they weren'tquite paying attention to, he promised he was also going to repeal obamacare. now, those coal workers finally realized whatthat means, and they're now terrified that not only are they probably going to lose theirjobs, but now they're going to lose their health insurance. these coal workers, coal miners, are scaredright now, because they're going to lose everything because they were duped by this donald trumpcon man, this snake oil salesman who came

to town and said, 'vote for me. it's the magical elixir to get your job back.' doesn't work like that, folks. i do still have some sympathy for these people. they've lost their jobs because they workfor an industry that's dying, and now they're going to lose the only thing keeping theirfamily protected from illnesses, since obviously after losing their job they're not going toget healthcare through an employer, and now they're going to lose that too because ofthe republican party. now, it's worth pointing out that hillaryclinton at one point during her campaign,

she eventually walked this back, but she hada 30 billion dollar plan for coal workers where she was going to retrain them to workin the renewable energy sector, so rather than losing their jobs working for coal theywere going to get new jobs working for the renewable energy sector, jobs that were goingto be sustainable and long-lasting. again, she did walk those comments back, andthat was the really one good proposal that i really loved from hillary clinton, and shealmost immediately took it away, but that doesn't mean that that specific plan couldnot be put into action for these people. we do have to take care of people that losetheir job because they work for a horrible industry, and that is the way to do it.

hillary clinton had the blueprint. it doesn't have to be enacted by her. it could be enacted by anybody, but somebody'sgot to do it, because these workers were screwed over once already by donald trump with hisfalse promises, and now they're going to be screwed over by him again because he's probablygoing to keep the promise to repeal obamacare. we know the republicans in congress want todo it, and we know donald trump wants to do it, and we know that they have the numbersto do it. overall, 10% ... excuse me, of trump votersthere has been a 10% increase in the number of people insured under the affordable careact, so if they repeal this, 10% of donald

trump voters are going to lose their healthinsurance, not just the coal workers. this is across the country, and the saddestpart is he told you he was going to do that, so it is hard to have sympathy for peoplewho voted against their own self-interest, but i do still have some. hopefully, you will take that lesson as wemove forward into elections in the future, so maybe you'll realize that hey, a vote forrepublicans is a vote against everything that not only do i care about, but that i needto survive.