Opinion: Trump just realized his mistake on health care. But it’s too late.
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 2 at 2:29 PM Just last week, President Trump promised that any minute now, Republicans were going to produce a plan to solve all the problems in the health-care system, one that would be, and I quote, “spectacular.” In response, I argued he was putting his party in an uncomfortable position by forcing Republicans to talk about an issue they would much prefer to avoid altogether.
That’s because the guarantee that people with preexisting conditions can get health coverage exists only because of the Affordable Care Act, and if Republicans succeed in any of their attempts to destroy the ACA — most recently with the lawsuit the administration is supporting that would tear out the ACA root and branch — that protection would be eliminated. They can swear up and down that they’ll figure out some way to restore the protection, but they know that voters don’t really believe them.
What Democrats won’t agree to is the actual things Republicans want to do on health care, which involve taking away coverage from millions of people, removing the protections the ACA provides and making the system much crueler than it is now. Any plan that adheres to conservative principles on health care will be abhorrent to Democrats and hugely unpopular with the public.
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