Opinion: Republicans’ missing health-care plan
By James Downie James Downie Digital opinions editor Email Bio Follow Opinions editor March 31 at 4:44 PM The Justice Department’s decision Monday that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional has sparked many questions, such as “Didn’t Republicans get killed in the midterms on health care?” and “Really? This again?” Combined with a federal judge’s ruling Thursday blocking the Trump administration’s “association health plans,” which the judge called “clearly an end-run around the...
“The Republican plan is manifold,” said Kellyanne Conway on “Fox News Sunday.” “We have offered plans in the House,” said acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “We have offered plans in the Senate. We came up with a bunch of ideas out of the White House.” Sen.
Another member of Trump’s crack team is Sen. Rick Scott , because no one knows how to fix U.S. health care better than a man who took in millions while overseeing a company committing massive Medicare fraud. The senators “are going to come up with something really spectacular,” Trump said Thursday. That seems to be news to Scott, because he said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that “I look forward to, you know, to seeing what the president’s going to put out.
What’s in this plan or plans? Mulvaney promised preexisting conditions would be covered, because"every single plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected covered preexisting conditions.” Scott said that “of course” maternity care would be covered. Barrasso touted the same association health plans that were just blocked.
Is the plan able to be this amalgam of imagination because there isn’t, in fact, any plan? Heavens no, said Conway. “There is a plan. We’ve been working on a plan for a long time. And we hope that Congress would come along.” But also, it’s not really the White House’s fault there is no plan: When Wallace pointed out that “you’ve never actually come up with a whole plan,” Conway replied, “Well, Donald Trump has been president for two years. So, give us a chance.
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