Trump's Health Care Executive Extortion Order

After promising for years that he would give Americans better health care at lower prices, Donald Trump has begun the process of sabotaging the health care market, increasing the cost and ultimately forcing millions of Americans to lose their health care:

The Trump administration announced Thursday night that it would stop making what are called cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. Trump says the payments were improper. Patient advocates, insurance regulators and lawmakers, including some Republicans, say the move will send premiums soaring and could destabilize insurance markets. “It’s going to hurt people, it’s going to hurt kids, it’s going to hurt families,” Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, told the Nevada Independent.

This action will cause people to lose their health care. They won't get treatment they need. They won't get drugs they need to treat conditions such diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. People will get get sick, have limbs amputated, suffer strokes and heart attacks. They will go bankrupt. They will die.

But Trump doesn't care. He is doing this to attack the insurance companies. Now, I'm not a fan of insurance companies: they're leeches and useless middlemen that suck money out of the system and put it into the pockets of their CEOs.

But they're a necessary evil when a country doesn't have a single-payer system, which is anathema to Republicans and many Democrats.

In a White House press gaggle Trump said this:

If you look at their stock price over the last number of years, take a look at what's happened with those insurance companies. They're making a fortune by getting that kind of money.

He's trying to get his supporters mad at the insurance companies, blaming them for everything. But without single payer, nothing Trump promises can ever happen. Trump even bragged on Twitter that he caused the stock price of insurance companies to drop.

Then there was this exchange (throughout the entire Q&A Trump's incoherence and repetitiveness are truly indicative of a man suffering from cognitive impairment -- he should be in a nursing home, not the White House):

Q You promised that you would help people who are struggling. The CSR payment looks like it will hurt low-income people.

THE PRESIDENT: The CSR payments, if you take a look at CSR payments, that money is going to insurance companies to prop up insurance companies.

Q To help lower-income people.

THE PRESIDENT: That money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price, and that's not what I'm about.

Take a look at who those insurance companies support, and I guarantee you one thing: It's not Donald Trump.

There you have it. The real reason for this executive order. Trump is retaliating against the insurance industry for supporting his opponent. He is blackmailing them into giving him money, holding the lives of millions of Americans hostage.

Trump admitted he is extorting insurance companies in public and then posted the blackmail threat on the White House website.

This is an impeachable offense.