Protesters Stage ‘Cough-in’ at Trump Restaurant to Protest Repeal of Obamacare

Continuing progressives’ binary understanding of how healthcare works, a group of protesters staged a “cough-in” at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan, New York:

The protesters began coughing, then proceeded to hold up signs reading: “We Need Obamacare,” and “Trumpcare Makes Us Sick.” They also chanted, because why not? After being escorted out of the restaurant, they continued to chant and hold up their signs.

Progressives have been brainwashed into believing that the healthcare debate is binary–that we either have Obamacare, or we go back to the way things were before. No third option is allowed to exist.

In reality, Republican and conservative politicians have come up with an array of solutions that would replace Obamacare with a system of affordable options and advanced care. Sunday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who happens to be an ophthalmologist, spoke about his own plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Paul’s plan includes methods to increase competition among insurers, lower prices, and allow for the very ill to get coverage.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked about healthcare during a CNN town hall event Thursday, and he offered his ideas, specifically addressing Americans with pre-existing conditions:

“We believe that state high-risk pools are a smart way of guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. We had a really good one in Wisconsin. Utah had a great one. I was talking with a Congresswoman from Washington today who was telling me how good their state high-risk pool is. What I mean when I say this is, about eight percent of all the people under 65 have that kind of pre-existing condition…And we don’t want people to go poor or go bankrupt because this thing happens to them.

So we, obviously, want to have a system where they can get affordable coverage without going bankrupt because they get sick. But, we can do that without destroying the rest of the healthcare system for everybody else. That’s the point I’m trying to make…by financing state high-risk pools to guarantee people get affordable coverage when they have a pre-existing condition, like yourself, what you’re doing is, you’re dramatically lowering the price of insurance for everybody else.”

Healthcare isn’t an A or B system; there aren’t only two options. Proponents of the Affordable Care Act want Americans to believe that Obama’s semi-socialized system (and any system that would augment it) is the only option. That’s simply not true. There are numerous ways our healthcare market can be fixed in order to make it more affordable, more patient-centric, and, perhaps most importantly, more free-market-oriented.

The protesters who staged the cough-in are either unaware of how the system works, or are acting under an agenda to advance the idea that socialized healthcare is the only solution.