#obamacare

#obamacare

For many years, dating all the way back to 2015, Donald Trump has promised he'd someday offer a health-care plan to replace Obamacare. For months Republicans have fretted over allegations that they are clueless or heartless about rising health-care costs, exacerbated by their refusal to extend expiring Obamacare-premium subsidies received by around 22 million Americans. They've tossed out a bunch of random conservative health-care panaceas, as has Trump, mostly revolving around health savings accounts and other individualistic measures for undermining Obamacare-style regulated insurance markets.

Well, we have to have [pharmacy benefit manager] reform, we have to look at the ways that we have a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse in the healthcare system. We have to let the marketplace work. There's no transparency or competition. You look at some things like, for example, the Oklahoma City Surgery Center and what they're doing. That's really innovation in healthcare, more remote, having nurses be able to treat patients in a different way. The whole system can be looked at very holistically,