Analysis, Approach and Stance On Key Issues
Issues at Home: Comparison of Stance and Approach between Hillary and Trump
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HealthCare |
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Affordable health care is a basic human right |
Bring free market reforms to the healthcare industry |
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- Provide enhanced relief for people on the exchanges, and provide a tax credit of up to $5,000 per family to offset a portion of excessive out-of-pocket and premium costs above 5% of their income
- Encourage states to enhance medicaid
Defend the Affordable Care Act.
- Lower out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles
- Reduce the cost of prescription drugs
- Transform our health care system to reward value and quality
- https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/health-care/
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- Repeal of Affordable Care Act
- Fully deductible healthcare premium
- Tax-free contributions into HSAs. It should be allowed to accumulate. Funds can be used by any member of a family without penalty
- Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers
- Block-grant Medicaid to the states
- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform/
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- Most of Hillary's promise on healthcare to build on work done by Obama administration by widening the reach of ACA.
- Expanding health care to families regardless of immigration status
- Intention to reduce cost of prescription drugs and especially her call to take on pharmaceutical companies practicing and deploying exploitative pricing strategies in the marketplace
- Hillary has published a factsheet on how she plans to lower the cost of prescription drugs
- taking on pharmaceutical companies
- bringing changes that will require insurance plans to place a monthly limit on covered out-of-pocket prescription drugs cost
- there is no real plan published on how she plans to lower out-of-pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles.
- Irrespective of the age group we are in, the rising cost of prescription drugs is an issue which is starting at us in the face. We are dealing with it now, or we have experienced it in past (and it had messed up our monthly budgets) or we are going to deal with it in near future. If Hillary delivers on this promise, it will definitely bring about a sign of relief in millions of households
- Details about how Hillary will execute on her promise to lower co-pays and out-of-pocket expenses
- How does she plan to generate additional funds required to support expansion of ACA, inclusion of public options
- She will need a bi-partisan support from congress to bring about changes in ACA. This is a uphill task with Republican dominated congress. With bigger insurance players like Atena leaving ACA, it is going to be increasingly daunting task for Hillary to deliver on this promise.
- Legislatively controlling Pharmaceuticals in American Economy, which is build on principles of free & open marketplace is good on paper, but far too difficult to implement.
- Recent announcement from major insurers like Aetna and UnitedHealth about leaving ACA exchanges in many as 34 and 18 state respectively is adding to the struggles of ACA and giving enough fodders to opposition to question it's viability.
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https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/09/21/hillary-clinton-plan-for-lowering-prescription-drug-costs/
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- Trump is all for free and competitive market in which insurance companies will battle each other to offer healthcare insurance to consumers hopefully with lower costs.
- broaden healthcare access, make healthcare more affordable and improve the quality of the care available to all Americans.
- No person should be required to buy insurance unless he or she wants to
- Support for keeping pre-existing conditions as a mandate
- Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system
- Allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Contributions into HSAs should be tax-free and should be allowed to accumulate
- ACA or not, fully deductible insurance premium along with accumulative HSA savings, will help us in lowering the financial burden of healthcare, as well as slowly build a corpus to deal with future healthcare costs.
- Details about how Trump will execute on his promise to create a sound public policy that will broaden healthcare access.
- His promise to repeal ACA is obviously going to face opposition from Democrats.
- Trump has spoken in favor of keeping support for pre-existing condition. and from those suffering with 'pre-existing' conditions who have benefited from improved coverage under ACA.
- As of today, competition alone has not helped in lowering cost of prescription drugs and healthcare, insurance plans in free markets are cleverly designed to have high out-of-pocket expenses and exclusions for pre-existing conditions rendering them either very costly or totally worthless in time of real need. Trump has so far not addressed this thorny issues.
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Jobs
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Every American should be able to learn the skills they need to compete and succeed |
I will be the greatest job-producing president in American history |
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- Incentivize businesses to invest directly in their workers and provide on-the-job training
- Provide a tax credit for businesses that create high-quality apprenticeships that lead to jobs.
- Expand programs that allow federal student aid to be used for high-quality career and lifelong learning programs with promising or proven record
- https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/workforce-and-skills/
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Immigration
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America needs comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship |
Immigration reform that will make America great again |
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- Fight for comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship
- Defend President Obama's DACA and DAPA executive actions
- Do everything possible under the law to go further to protect families
- End the 3- and 10-year bars
- Promote naturalization
- Create a national Office of Immigrant Affairs to ensure successful immigrant and refugee integration in every community
- Support affordable integration services through $15 million in new grant funding for community navigators and similar organizations
- Significantly increase federal resources for adult English language education and citizenship education
- Expand access to affordable health care to all families
- Conduct humane, targeted immigration enforcement
- End family detention
- Close private immigrant detention centers
- https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/immigration-reform/
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- A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border
- A nation without laws is not a nation.Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced
- A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
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Military
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United States maintains the best-trained, best-equipped, and strongest military the world has ever know |
I will make our Military so big, powerful and strong that no one will mess with us |
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Second amendment rights
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Silent on stance |
I won't let them take away our guns!! |
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Global Issues: Comparison of Stance and Approach between Hillary and Trump
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Donald Trump
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International Trade |
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There is no clear stance on Intl trade but the Campaign site does talk about keeping and getting some jobs in America. |
Develop a negotiating strategy to bring fairness to our trade with China. The results will be huge for American businesses and workers. Jobs and factories will stop moving offshore and instead stay here at home. The economy will boom. The steps outlined in this plan will make that a reality. |
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- She will strengthen trade enforcement, and she'll say no to trade deals like TPP that don't meet a high enough bar of creating good-paying jobs
- She will crack down on companies that shift profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes, and she'll make companies that export jobs give back the tax breaks they've received in America.
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- Bring China to the bargaining table - by immediately declaring it a currency manipulator
- Protect American ingenuity and investment - by forcing China to uphold intellectual property laws and stop their unfair and unlawful practice of forcing U.S. companies to share proprietary technology with Chinese competitors as a condition of entry to China's market
- reclaim millions of american jobs and reviving manufacturing - by putting an end to China's illegal export subsidies lax labor environmental standards. no more sweatshops or pollution havens stealing from workers.
- Strengthen our negotiating position - by lowering our corporate tax rate to keep American companies and jobs here at home, 'attacking our debt and deficit' so China cannot use financial blackmail against us, and bolstering the U.S. military presence in the East and South China Seas to discourage Chinese adventurism
- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
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- Compel companies to reconsider shifting jobs abroad by using means available
- She presents a gradual, but definite, shift from where America is today in the globalised world; and provides a path for companies to help America's goodwill capital, while bringing or retaining jobs at home
- The Approach section covers this section
- The idea of recovering or rolling back tax breaks given in previous years to companies might spread gloom and doom in Corporate America and might force companies to avoid risk-taking, thus killing investments in economy.
- Stiff resistance from Congress for rolling back Trade deals like TPP and NAFTA. Corporate America lobbying might make it difficult to make laws to stop companies shifiting profits overseas since they create jobs locally and shift white collar jobs with American citizens being shifted there with similar lifestyle.
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- Negotiate and bring fairness with Trading Partners in Intl Trade, resulting in increase in keeping jobs at home
- We like the fact that Trump plans to incentivise American companies to keep jobs at home by lowering Corporate taxes. The other good thing is that Trump plans to regulate American Ingenuity and IP, hopefully in all fairness.
- The Stance and Approach section cover this section
- Brinnging China & other emerging markets to the negotiating table might be easier said than done. We do not find a viable, compelling plan. DEclaring China a currency manipulator has ramifications for US as well. A new world order might be difficult to fathom, especially when globalization has so deeply manifested itself.
- Protecting American Ingenuity and IP might not be easy since America needs access to China and other emerging markets and their govt needs to protect local people, companies and prices of technology and medicinal drugs. If the issues get raised at WTO, they might take their own sweet time by which the term of President might get over. Secondly, Lowering tax rate for American companies might not be enough motivation to keep jobs at home, since China would also move and tap rural labor supply to keep wages' advantage competitive, and other emerging markets might also folow suit.
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Climate Change
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Climate change is an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time and Hillary Clinton has a plan to tackle it by making America the world's clean energy superpower, taking bold steps to slash carbon pollution at home and around the world, and ensuring no Americans are left out or left behind as we rapidly build a clean energy economy. |
Mostly Silent on the issue on his site. |
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- Create good-paying jobs by making the United States the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.
- Set national goals to have 500 million solar panels installed; generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America; cut energy waste in homes, schools, and hospitals by a third; and reduce American oil consumption by a third
- Lead the world in the fight against climate change by bringing greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below what they were in 2005 within the next decade'and keep going.
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ISIS
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Defeat ISIS and global terrorism and the ideologies that drive it |
We are going to get rid of ISIS, we are going to get rid of them fast! |
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- ISIS and the foreign terrorist fighters it recruits pose a serious threat to America and our allies. We will confront and defeat them in a way that builds greater stability across the region, without miring our troops in another misguided ground war. Hillary will empower our partners to defeat terrorism and the ideologies that drive it, including through our ongoing partnership to build Iraqi military and governing capacity, our commitment to Afghanistan's democracy and security, and by supporting efforts to restore stability to Libya and Yemen
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