What ’ s wrong with Trumpcare (so far)

  As a college student many years ago I had a summer internship at a top consulting firm, where I learned an important lesson from my boss: “Don’t come tell me about a problem without proposing a solution.” It went without saying that before speaking up I was expected to focus only on real problems, analyze the situation, and propose realistic, logically consistent solutions. I’m reminded of this lesson pretty much whenever I hear Donald Trump say something, on subjects ranging from immigration to the environment to foreign policy. If he were a summer intern he would have been fired, and We the People should have known better than to hire him for his current gig. Trump has no problem calling the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a “complete and total disaster” and saying everything should be thrown out the window and replaced with “something terrific.” But if you listen in recent days it’s become clear to me that Trump doesn’t even know what the Affordable Care Act includes. I’m sure if a reporter asked him to name five key elements of Obamacare he couldn’t do it, not that he could be bothered to try. The things Trump says he wants to achieve are mainly in line with the objectives of the ACA itself. Furthermore, the ACA has achieved some or a lot of success in many of these areas. To the extent Trump has backed different approaches, they are either irrelevant, ineffectual, contradictory, or fiscally unsound. Trump said in his speech to Congre...
Source: Health Business Blog - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Amusements Donald Trump Source Type: blogs