His thoughts on Health care He actually said health insurance will be $15 a month... It’s been more than two months since President Trump said “nobody knew” health care could be so complicated (see the video above). The president doesn’t seem to have studied up on the topic since then -- despite House Republicans passing a health-care bill. Exhibit A: Trying to follow Trump’s line of logic as he spoke to The Economist about the GOP bill was challenging, to say the least. In the interview published this week, Trump showed that he not only doesn’t understand how health insurance works -- he’s also still unclear on exactly how the House-passed measure would even change the current system. Lawmakers in both parties misspeak about health policy all the time. We get that, to some extent. Since it’s a complex issue, not everyone can be an expert and it’s hard to predict what kind of impact legislation will have on patients, doctors and markets, anyway. Recall how President Obama promised people their insurance premiums would come way down under his health-care law? And supporters of Obamacare dramatically underestimated how costly the marketplace enrollees would be for health insurers, who have been exiting in droves (Aetna, most recently). But Trump has appeared consistently incoherent on the issue in the past few months, as he hounded GOP leaders to get a health-care bill through. Just as the divided House Republican Conference seemed to be working through their differences, he’d fire off tweets promising they’d deliver on certain polices that were still very much up in the air or highlight contentious issues Republicans weren’t eager to discuss. Read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...49eb1e9b69b209cf2b811/?utm_term=.54f948997a51
