Columnist Davidlaz writes: You’d have to be nuts to undermine the healthcare system without a viable alternative
, based on a technicality involving the individual mandate, which Trump already has eliminated.
I asked Vivian Ho, director of the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, if it made sense to strike down a law that touched the lives of a huge number of Americans without having something better to offer. It’s such a spectacularly bad idea to trudge down this road again that you have to wonder if Trump has contempt for the American people.
Trump wants to do away with all that, without any new safeguards to keep people from being wiped out financially by a medical problem.Nobody is arguing that the Affordable Care Act is perfect. Clearly there need to be measures to limit price increases, although that became significantly harder after Trump ditched the individual mandate, which keeps costs down by spreading risk across the greatest number of people.
Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress for two years and were unable to come up with a workable healthcare plan.
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