"... Trump’s video unveiling this “proposal” was an odd pastiche of boasts about what he’s already done in the health-care arena (particularly his jawboning of pharmaceutical companies to lower prices for some drugs), denunciations of the “Unaffordable Care Act” (a term he clearly considers a bon mot), and wild claims about how incredibly good and cheap health care will soon become. He talked of lowering prices by far more than 100 percent, which is a mathematical impossibility. He failed even to mention the biggest problem Obamacare was created to address: the refusal of insurers to provide coverage for people with preexisting conditions or inherently expensive treatments. And once again, Trump’s impulses led him in contradictory directions; despite his denunciations of Obamacare, one of his big ideas is to build on an Obamacare discount feature called “cost-sharing reductions.” [snip]
"More likely than not, the president is just engaging in some high-visibility pre-midterm “messaging” to show concern over a set of problems that have stumped him and his party for eons. Maybe it will eventually turn into a proposal that more or less hangs together, even if its enactment by Congress is the longest stretch imaginable. Unfortunately, Trump’s claim that he has a “plan” will almost certainly kill off the already languishing efforts to come up with a bipartisan fix for the Obamacare-premium spike that is just now beginning to be felt in pocketbooks everywhere. He should have kept his rambling thoughts to himself." -- Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine, in "Trump Repackages Random Ideas Into 'Great Healthcare Plan.'" Meanwhile, the Malignant Fascist and his Republican party/ cult enablers are doing nothing to stop Affordable Care Act premiums from skyrocketing; in fact, as Kilgore notes, the timing of this "plate of spaghetti thrown against the wall" is likely to kill any hope that a fix for the rising ACA premiums can be passed, doubtless what the MF and his sociopathic minions had in mind. They don't want Americans to have nice things like affordable health care or cities that aren't war zones.
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