Trump Has a Concept of a Health Care Plan, Which Means He Doesn't Have a Health Care Plan

"You may have missed this amid the current barrage of massed insanity emanating from the White House, but the president, after a decade of working the con in two-week increments, finally released an outline of a concept of a health-care plan. It was, of course, another demonstration of his essential worthlessness as an actual president of the United States. The New York Times was being gentle about it."

"Under pressure to address affordability issues in the country, President Trump on Thursday released his long-awaited health-care plan, urging Congress to pass measures that would codify steps his administration has already taken to try to lower drug costs and providing what a White House official called broad direction' to back health savings accounts. 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."

"In a prerecorded video, the president said, I'm calling on Congress to pass this framework into law without delay, have to do it right now, so that we can get immediate relief to the American people. But there is nothing to pass. There is no bill. The plan, for all intents and purposes, does not exist. Moreover, the White House document is little more than a hodgepodge of conservative ideas, packaged together on a short website."

President Trump released a short, outline-style health-care framework urging Congress to codify measures aimed at lowering drug costs and to support health savings accounts. The document provided no legislative text, no implementation timeline, and left most specifics to lawmakers. The release consisted of a few paragraphs on a webpage and was presented with a prerecorded call for immediate congressional action despite no bill existing. Administration officials described the initiative as broad architecture, while critics characterized the document as an empty compilation of conservative ideas and insufficient as a concrete plan.

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