If I were the King of All (Political) Media, I would decree every Media outlet run a story like this:
News Analysis: Voters Troubled by Non-Existence of Trump Health Plan
Elizabeth Warren’s detailed Medicare for All Plan has attracted widespread analysis and criticism: From the left (Jacobin), the center (Lawrence Summers), the right (National Review) and Warren’s rival candidates. Critiques range from “It doesn’t actually pay for it,” to “It will kill the economy” to “It can’t possibly pass.”
This level of scrutiny has not been applied to Donald Trump’s health care plan, perhaps because there is no Trump health care plan. Apparently, the way to avoid detailed criticism and voter anxiety is to avoid creating any proposal at all.
After all, this worked like a charm in 2016, when he promised: You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy. Foolishly, Hillary Clinton had a detailed healtcare policy based on improving the ACA. This subjected it to analysis and criticism as opposed to Trump’s simple, baseless promise.
Trump and the GOP are following the 2016 playbook, pledging no Republican health-care plan until after the 2020 elections. Will it work again? The 2018 and 2019 off year elections suggest it might not. Even a few months ago, polls showed Disaster For Republicans As Poll Finds Swing State Voters Won’t Vote For Trump Due To Healthcare. And a lesson of the 2019 election, is voters reject Republicans like Bevin who threaten healthcare benefits.
Diners at The Colonel’s Kitchen in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, outside of Cincinnati, said healthcare was a big issue in voting out Bevin. Charlotte Johnston, a nurse, said “We wanted to send a message to Republicans, including Bevin and Trump, that they will pay the price of having no healthcare plan and trying to take away what we have now.”*
* Full disclosure. I made this paragraph up. Why? Because (unlike those ubiquitous Trump voter interviews in diners), I could not, even after numerous searches, find quotes from people who voted for the winners in the 2019 elections. The Colonel’s Kitchen is real though, and features Cheesy grits, biscuits and gravy, ham, and scrambled eggs.”
Not open Monday though.