Since being the front-runner for your party's nomination to be president requires things like policy papers, Donald Trump finally came up with one. His long-awaited "terrific" plan is finally out. It has what might be considered a terrific title, anyway: HEALTHCARE REFORM TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. It's in all caps. That's how you know it's a big deal. Except that is mostly bombast and warmed-over Republican ideas, which even when combined together don't actually make a plan.
He does say, however, that "on the first day of the Trump Administration, we can start the process of restoring faith in government and economic liberty to the people." By repealing Obamacare and taking health insurance away from them. That the number one item on his plan. Repeal. Number two is allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines—bet you didn't see that one coming! Then more regular GOP things; allowing a deduction for health insurance premiums, allowing people to use Health Savings Accounts which they can already do, and ensure that Medicaid is dismantled at the state level by turning it into a block grant program.
He does actually have two ideas that will never fly with a Republican Congress: requiring "price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals," and removing "barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products." So there's actually the germ of some new stuff here. He includes a lot of stuff about how kicking 12 million undocumented immigrants out will reduce healthcare costs, and how he will "install programs that grow the economy and bring capital and jobs back to America."
Just to reiterate; this is not a plan. It's a handful of ideas Republicans have been kicking around for seven years but cannot gel into anything that would actually provide health insurance to all the people who need it and at the same time reduce the nation's healthcare costs. Like everything else Republican in this election, it's a sham.
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