has spoken about his aunt’s death
First Lady Melania Trump was briefly hospitalized for a kidney condition last year. The White House has declined to share details of her condition, other than to describe it as “benign.” “One of the key reasons for our failing policies is that kidney care in particular has some of the worst incentives in American healthcare,” HHS Secretary Azar in March told the National Kidney Foundation’s annual patient summit.and the new initiative comes as the administration and Congress have made lowering health care costs a top priority, seeking an issue that can be touted on the campaign trail.
Sad to see the hateful comments below - this is actually good thing. Had a friend on wait list for years & had to get to hospital for dialysis often. Other countries offer payment for living donors & have far fewer deaths from kidney disease but ppl here should die because Trump?
He must have a kidney problem... He does nothing without personal gain
Because the kidneys having a very special place in the heart!!
can't pay your medical bills? still have both kidneys? there you go....
Oh look, America, if you are rich enough to find a donor this EO will not protect you from pre existing conditions. He's called it streamlining which means inferior work due to deregulation. donald is privatizing kidney harvestation, implantation, pt financial support to donors.
This moron is going to start organ trafficking all over again. This also means that people are going to start cutting corners and unchecked organs (like those with HIV,AIDS, HEPATITIS, etc). He is sending us back to a scary time in medical 😥😥😢 history. All about money!!
FU POLITICO! Kidney failure is one of the most devastating, time consuming and quality of life draining diseases running rampant across every spectrum in the USA! It literally affects all body systems negatively. Death toll is off the charts!
Oh now it makes sense why you had CBP take DNA samples from migrants. The migrants are going to be offered citizenship (“incentive”) in exchange for a kidney. If they die while in custody harvest heart, lungs and other vital organs for transplant.
'...trans pants...'
Talking about it and having funding and a logistically sound plan are two very different things!
realDonaldTrump there has to be a billionaire or big donor who needs a kidney and has to wait his/her turn.
Maybe he could offer citizenship to every person willing to donate a kidney...He's just that awful...of course, then he would change his mind (or Stephen Miller would)
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Problem with this is he does not know where the kidneys are located. Did anyone else notice the tall guy in the back trying not to laugh when he heard that? Nice try though.
So he's going to take away people's health insurance -- so how are they going to pay for a transplant or dialysis? And after that, how will they ever get insurance, because without the ACA, there's no protection for people with pre-existing condition. He's such a hypocrite.
Odd that you aren't mentioning here the utter insane incoherence of his speech. Kidney in the heart?
Did he say 'kidney available transplants' wtf now human trafficking for organs? 😯😯😯😯😯 wtf realDonaldTrump wtf
Wait...I thought home birth was dangerous, now he wants home kidney transplants!!!
Melania should have been there
The name is Dr. Trump, new head of the medical association.
But the lawsuit to repeal and replace Transplant and dialysis as long as you have cash...cause it’s otherwise preexisting and your insurance doesn’t have to cover it...but all the kidney in your heart shit, yeah that...
What does he know or care about kidneys and dialysis and transplants? Who is the real driving force? Is he going to build and sell kidney dialysis machines? Why does he think he can drum up all those kidneys? There's money in it for himself somewhere. I smell a rat.
paulmcclintock China figured it out
W. T. F. Is going on here?!?
'heart, lung, and liver transpants' at 3:45. Love the ad lib 'we think that number's very doable' when he reads that the anticipated increased number of transplants. Standard Trump - see number, insert 'we think that number's very doable'.
never works with constituents...always executive orders here and there...so sick of the term 'executive' and what comes next...
Maybe that’s what those immigrant detention centers really are - kidney farms
privatize the Kindney industry? What an idiot...all money. Follow the money-he could care less about the patients
Where is he planning to get '17,000 additional kidneys'? As well heart, lung and liver? Do the people at the border have another thing to worry about?
🤮🤮🤮you are next for home treatment for a brain disorder!!
I'm confused, when he says home kidney transplants is he talking about doing your own transplant or is he talking about 3rd hookers style kidneys?
Because the kidney has a special place in the heart; like Mars is part of the Moon
Transplants at home? Like with a transplant kit?
Stupid, Stupid, Stupidity!!!!
If this were anyone else I’d be concerned about his declining health, but it’s trump so I hope he eats more cheeseburgers for dinner.
What the FUCK is he ON?!
Encourage more kidney transplants 'AT HOME'!?! WTF?
So did he and his progeny sign donor cards? If not, talk is cheap.
He would probably be all for surgeries taking place at home also!!!
Oh, I see, he wants to pay people for live donor transplants & revise the rules re 'organ procurement organisations' & find donors (live?/poor?/ immigrant?/homeless?) That's not a slippery slope at all!
Why does he need executive powers to encourage people.
Stunning this con man is out here hawking “kidney transplants!” the same day “his people” are arguing in court to destroy the ACA root-and-branch, therefore ensuring no one can afford a kidney transplant, and anyone who has one would never again be insurable.
“We’re going to increase the supply of kidney available transplants ...” Um. I’m almost afraid to ask but where will these kidneys (oh, and hearts, lungs and livers, as well) be coming from? 😱
he is currently supporting a lawsuit in appeals court that strikes down the ACA. If he succeeds everything he is saying right now is null and void.
Check those missing kids at the border for scars if and when they finally turn up
Donald Trump is signing an Executive Order making more kidneys available for transplants...you don’t have to wonder anymore what is happening to those who are disappearing from the border detention (concentration) camps.
Does this mean Trump’s enacting the old urban legend where you have a drink with friends one night and wake up the next morning in a bathtub filled w/ice?
The work “literally” kills people
He wants the government to spend more money ? What's up ?
I’m not sure he understands what is fully required to be a candidate for a transplant or even to do home dialysis. Most people don’t even understand what dialysis really entails.
- you aren't even slightly tempted to comment on the involuntary neurological spasms he seems to be having? Watch is left shoulder. Start reporting on his health.
Heart, lung & liver TRANSPANTS 🤣🤣🤣
You have to Healthcare to pay for it.
“I’ve been saying for years there should be more available kidneys. And with this executive order, there will suddenly be more kidneys available. Obama hated kidneys, very sad.”
One cannot escape the irony that his appreciated assistance for kidney patients is offset by his mission to destroy the ACA healthcare system & eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions, including, presumably, kidney disease.
So basically he's too stupid to understand dialysis?
I wonder how many undocumented migrants start showing up minus body organs? Trump is now in the organ donation industry. Human trafficking & organ donations. What can go wrong?
Welp the black market is officially open to all. Black folks are in danger.
A small problem: what Trump is trying to do relies on the ACA. A law that: *his DOJ refuses to defend against a major lawsuit (happening now) *GOP have deliberately weakened *Trump has repeatedly said he wants to kill *the GOP has no absolutely replacement for.
My concern is are they going to cut out or lower the standards of kidney screening!
Just curious - has anyone seen realDonaldTrump 's organ donor card?
you mean he wants a cut? How’s that gonna work if pple live in apartments? Don’t forget he is actively trying to end ACA in court! Who is buying this bullshjt?
Trump’s donors who have had their nursing homes and private prisons shuttered must have found a new bounties in kidneys.
He's probably invested big in it.can't believe their is any other reason.
If trumps involved, someone going to get ripped off!
We have 500 Million 3rd World illiterate diseased elderly waiting to cross our borders for free taxpayer funded healthcare.
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He needs the hospital spaces, the apocalypse is coming.
I hope this guy’s kidneys are aligned better than Melania’s.
Interpretation: Dialysis patient will die.
I must be really sick; the first thing I though was, so THAT'S why he wants all these illegal immigrants locked up, of all ages—they are going to start organ harvesting, and suddenly race won't matter. These people ARE that evil...
Jokes aside on what really constitute kidneys on flotus, it’s telling that the only time 45 cares about overhauling anything is when someone in his immediate orbit is directly impacted, yet he is still hell bent on obliterating PP & ACA.
Thank GOD
I wonder what staffer came up with this idea. Surely Trumpie couldn’t come up with this.
Maybe that's a good thing
Sure she did.
So boob jobs are now covered on my insurance?
KathyNature Yea, no one believes it was actually her kidneys...
He wants to get rid of chain migration when that’s how melania’s parents got here, hires undocumented workers yet wants to deport them all, wants respect yet talks about airports in the 1770s, approves dumping toxic waste into our rivers & thinks he is a champion of ecology.
'Kidney Procedure'
Do you really believe she had a Kidney procedure ? She had her breast done look at pictures before she was in the Wh
Melania's kidneys sure made her harsh face worse and seemed to augment the bust line. Strange, how kidney problems have so many side issues.
Bad news for $FME and $FRE with their kidney business
Just like he wants to stop chain migration, after her family used it to come here. And just like all the other hypocrisy and selfishness evident in this disgusting man.
'Kidney' procedure yeah right. I havent heard about any follow-up appointments. Just call it what it is, a breast implant
'overhaul' meaning destroy?
healthcare
Great, it will turn to shit like everything else Donald touches. How many lives will be lost due to this asshat's tinkering with this?
They look healthy to me.
...oh, ffs....keep that idiot out of it!! Doom and disaster will follow, as it has in the past with everything else he’s futzed with....
Did she get a kidney lift?
I do not believe her kidney surgery was anything more than a foil for more plastic surgery. Look at her expressionless face.
I have chronic kidney disease, if anything he's making harder for us!
You forgot the quote marks - 'kidney procedure'
It's a very sad process that needs to be reevaluated on multiple levels. End stage renal failure is one of the worst ways to go out.
Melanie’s kidneys are doing better than ever!
You misspelled boob job
'cuz steviewonder's getting a kidney transplant in the fall...
yes, her new kidneys were on display for the public on July 4th! BeBreast
At least he seems to know what kidneys are.
Kidney failure is a major reason that patients are admitted to ICU’s frequently. Rumor has it that rich people get shorter runs of dialysis at home every day, which obvs is beneficial. Would love to see insurance cover that, it would save $$$
trump 2020: every American gets a pair of tits—I mean kidneys.
He believes we have two sets of breasts. The ones in the front and the back up kidneys for the first needs a filler or replacement
Reasoning odd. Overhaul badly needed.
She didn’t undergo a kidney procedure
Doesn’t he know that was a ruse?