"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."
"It's significantly less vague than most of his past maunderings on health care but hardly anything you could call a blueprint, as the New York Times observed: The plan was short on specific details and left much of the direction for how to finalize it up to Congress. It amounted to a few paragraphs on a webpage, released with a video of Mr. Trump promoting what he called "the great health care plan.""
Donald Trump has promised since 2015 to offer a replacement for Obamacare and recently released a short webpage and video presenting the 'Great Healthcare Plan.' Republicans have worried about rising health-care costs and declined to extend expiring premium subsidies that affect about 22 million Americans. The plan recycles conservative proposals such as health savings accounts and individual-market deregulation, offers few concrete details, and delegates much of the final design to Congress. The unveiling mixes claims of past achievements, denunciations of the Affordable Care Act, and mathematical impossibilities like reducing prices by more than 100 percent.
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