On Friday, President Trump, struggling to work with Senate Republicans to pass Obamacare reform, suggested a possible solution: maybe, just maybe, Republicans should repeal Obamacare and then replace it piecemeal. He tweeted:
If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Naturally, conservatives have been promoting this policy since literally before the 2016 campaign. And Trump and the Republicans refused to follow that policy prescription, because they believed that simple repeal wouldn’t be a good campaign slogan – they wanted the cop-out of being able to tell Americans that they had a super-double-secret plan to “replace” Obamacare.
It turns out no such plan existed, and that the Republican caucus is fractious and bickering, that it unites big spending “moderates” with conservative free marketers – that it’s more difficult to replace Obamacare than to repeal it outright. But only now, after months of talk about how Republicans want to destroy Medicaid and throw poor people off cliffs, does Trump come to this eminently obvious solution.
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