Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) praised President Donald Trump’s teased healthcare plan, comparing its effect to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Speaking on Tuesday after Trump said he would pursue his own healthcare reforms, dubbed “Trumpcare,” to replace Obamacare, Burchett gave the concept a positive reception. He suggested that the political affect of the plan could be seismic, reaching back millions of years for a proper metaphor.
“I think that meteorite that hit the Gulf of America a millennia ago that wiped out the dinosaurs is Trumpcare, and it’s going to wipe out the dinosaur that’s Chuck Schumer,” Burchett said, referring to the roughly 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the Earth over 66 million years ago around the Yucatan Peninsula, triggering a chain reaction that killed 75% of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.
Burchett offered further thoughts on the healthcare issue in an interview with CNN, arguing that congressional leadership needed to overcome its fear of making a definitive deal regarding healthcare. He said that such a deal had to bring together patients and doctors, ignoring the concerns of insurance companies.
“It seems kinda crazy, but in the future maybe we oughta bring the patients and the doctors to the table and tell the insurance companies they can go take a flying leap,” he said.
The issue of Affordable Care Act subsidies was the primary reason Democrats gave for refusing to vote for the last Continuing Resolution, which triggered the longest government shutdown in United States history. As the shutdown appears to be drawing to a close, Trump sought to soothe the worries of those concerned with healthcare by proposing his own alternative.
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“That would be so exciting,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Monday. “Call it Trumpcare. Call it whatever you want. … Anything but Obamacare!”
“I said it’s going to be a disaster. And I was exactly right,” he said about Obamacare. “The premiums have gone up like rocket ships. And I’m not just talking about recently. I’m talking about for years they’ve been going up.”
