President Trump clearly recognizes, at least in the abstract, that providing affordable health care is a political winner. …
Yet his Justice Department formally backs throwing out Obamacare — without any replacement legislation ready to go. …
Trump once said that “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” In reality, everyone knew it was, which is why President Barack Obama, in pushing for the ACA, embraced a coverage strategy that had been proposed by right-leaning think tanks. His and the Democrats’ long-standing assumption was that Obamacare would eventually be a political winner, even if it was not popular over the short term. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post