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Trump: 'Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated' The president appears to nod to the grim political reality around repealing and replacing Obamacare. President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated," and again flirted with the idea that Republicans should let Obamacare "implode" so that Democrats shoulder the blame. "Costs will come down, and I think the health care will go up very, very substantially," the president said. "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."Trump throughout his campaign publicly pledged to quickly kill and replace Obamacare, while never getting specific about what the alternative would look like. As he met on Monday with insurance company chief executives, Trump reiterated his description of Obamacare as a "disaster" that is "only getting worse."

President Trump's health care nightmare

The trouble with health care reform is that it requires tradeoffs between competing goals, like low cost and comprehensive insurance, or universal coverage and individual flexibility. By which I suppose he meant, "Everybody except me knew that health care is really complicated, but they just explained it to me, and wow." "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." ADVERTISEMENT"Now I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," President Trump said on Monday, speaking about the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In his defense, it does seem that congressional Republicans are also only now grappling with the complexity of health care reform (they probably knew it was complicated, but preferred not to think about it until they were forced to).


Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated," Trump told the governors. Trump also met Monday with health insurance executives, some of whom are worried that the uncertainty over the health care law's future is spilling into the marketplace. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the block grant systems could cut Medicaid spending by as much as a third over the next decade. Trump met Monday with a group of governors as Congress began to take up proposals to "repeal and replace" the health care law, one of Trump's main campaign promises. That would force states to cut Medicaid benefits, shift more cost to Medicaid patients, raise state taxes, cut other state spending — or a combination of those moves.



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