On health care, Trump seems deeply confused about policy and process
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On health care, Trump seems deeply confused about policy and process
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01/10/17 04:22 PM—Updated 01/10/17 05:31 PM
By Steve Benen
When it comes to the health care debate, Republican unanimity has unraveled with surprising speed in recent weeks. GOP leaders in the House and Senate are committed to a “repeal and delay” strategy in which Republicans would repeal the Affordable Care Act quickly and work out the details in a few years, while a growing number of rank-and-file GOP lawmakers don’t want to vote on repeal until the party has an alternative reform plan to replace “Obamacare.”
To help work out the differences, Republicans could probably use some presidential leadership. Unfortunately for the GOP, however, the party is stuck with Donald Trump – who made clear in a New York Times interview this afternoon that he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to the most rudimentary details of the debate.
President-elect Donald J. Trump pressed Republicans on Tuesday to move forward with the immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act and to replace it very quickly thereafter, saying, “We have to get to business. Obamacare has been a catastrophic event.”
Mr. Trump’s position undercuts Republican leaders who want a quick vote to repeal President Obama’s signature domestic achievement but who also want to wait as long as two to three years to come up with an alternative. But he was also challenging the resolve of nervous Republicans in Congress who do not want any vote on a repeal until that replacement exists.
Hmm. There are two GOP factions on this: those who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and then replace it with a more conservative alternative, and those who want to tackle both tasks simultaneously. Trump, in effect, said he kinda sorta disagrees with both approaches – and kinda sorta agrees with both, too.
The president-elect, completely clueless about his own party’s plans, went on to tell the Times he wants to see a repeal vote “probably some time next week.” Trump then wants the replacement bill to follow “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”
That doesn’t make any sense.....................
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Many of his supporters don't recognize that ACA = Obamacare. 
