For months now, the White House has been promising that a Trumpcare plan was coming soon. Soon! Really! Not a plan that would be voted on, mind you, but it was going to be "really great" and also "wonderful."
Really great and wonderful or … nonexistent. The Daily Beast talked to the Republican senators who were supposedly coming up with this really great, wonderful replacement for Obamacare, and found that that’s not really what they’re working on.
Florida’s Rick Scott said what he’s “focused on is things that are going to drive down costs. Everything I’m going to do on health care is going to be focused on costs.” Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy said, “We’ve been working hard on a lot of issues, surprise medical billing, lowering drug costs, et cetera, which I think sets the stage for doing other things to help make health care more affordable.” And Wyoming’s John Barrasso said, “I was at the White House with the president more recently and we’re talking about surprise medical billing, working in a bipartisan way on that.”
So it sounds like what they’re going to come up with is a surprise medical billing bill, which shouldn’t be too hard, since there are already multiple versions of such a policy, all of which are bipartisan. That could be good! It would not be a replacement for Obamacare.