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Trumps health-care plan has already been tried. It was a disaster.
. . .
We don’t have the full details of Trump’s plan — or any Republican health-care plan, for that matter — but we are starting to see its bones develop. There will be no individual mandate or similar mechanism to bring healthy Americans into the system, but Trump has indicated he wants to retain the requirement that insurers cover everyone, including patients with serious preexisting conditions.
Trump is telling Americans what he thinks they want to hear: that they can have all their dessert — consumer protections — without eating their vegetables — an individual mandate.
This might be an effective rhetorical technique, but it is not the truth. The reality is that such an approach would result in devastation to the health-care system.
This prediction isn’t based on speculation or unproven economic theory. Republicans already tried Trump’s approach in my home state of Washington. The result was a well-documented disaster.
. . .
We don’t have the full details of Trump’s plan — or any Republican health-care plan, for that matter — but we are starting to see its bones develop. There will be no individual mandate or similar mechanism to bring healthy Americans into the system, but Trump has indicated he wants to retain the requirement that insurers cover everyone, including patients with serious preexisting conditions.
Trump is telling Americans what he thinks they want to hear: that they can have all their dessert — consumer protections — without eating their vegetables — an individual mandate.
This might be an effective rhetorical technique, but it is not the truth. The reality is that such an approach would result in devastation to the health-care system.
This prediction isn’t based on speculation or unproven economic theory. Republicans already tried Trump’s approach in my home state of Washington. The result was a well-documented disaster.
. . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-health-care-plan-has-already-been-tried-it-was-a-disaster/2017/01/05/161afdd4-d364-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.e2aef9fa2304
