Remember when Donald Trump made it seem
like he would easily repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (aka
Obamacare)? Well, most of us knew that wouldn't happen and now it looks like
the President knows this as well. New York Magazine reports:
"If there’s one thing almost
everybody across the political spectrum knows about health-care reform, it’s
that it’s really hard. People who study the issue closely know it. People who
don’t follow the issue know. (That’s why lots of smart people don’t follow
the issue closely — it’s really hard!) But there is apparently a category of
people who did not realize until very recently that the issue is hard, and that
category consists of Donald J. Trump, who told reporters today, 'It’s an
unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so
complicated.'"
Actually everybody
knew that. But not knowing it was the thing that held together his impossible
promises.
By Jonathan
Chait
