Analysis This is not the health-care bill that Donald Trump promised
It was one thing for Donald Trump to pledge on the campaign trail that his plan on health care would assure that every American had coverage. He did so, repeatedly, including during a town hall event in February 2016 at which he said his promise to “take care” of everyone might sound as if he’s talking of a single-payer system, but he wasn’t. “That’s not single-payer,” he said. “That’s not anything. That’s just human decency.”
It was another thing, though, for Trump to make similar claims after the election. Before the election, it was anything-goes in a way that most politicians would avoid. After, one might expect Trump to zero in on his actual preferences a bit more narrowly, to scrape away the rhetoric and describe, instead, what it was that he wanted to see.
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told The Post’s Robert Costa and Amy Goldstein during an interview less than a week before his inauguration. While Trump was characteristically confident and equally characteristically light on specifics, he did outline several things that he anticipated the Republican Obamacare replacement bill might include.
The plan would have “lower numbers, much lower deductibles.” The “philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it”? Trump insisted that “that’s not going to happen with us” — implying that there would be universal coverage regardless of income. What’s more, people could “expect to have great health care” that would be “in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better.”
Trump told Costa and Goldstein that people wouldn’t keep their existing plans but would have some sort of insurance plan. “[T]hey’ll be beautifully covered,” he said. “I don’t want single-payer. What I do want is to be able to take care of people.”
This is not the proposal that passed the House on Thursday.
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Trump promised insurance for everybody.
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