With poll after poll showing that health care is the issue that most concerns Americans, President Donald Trump would be wise to rethink his recent terrifying strategy: moving to destroy the nation's system, promising to quickly reinvent it, and then saying he'll do nothing for 20 months. It's enough to make a nation ill.
Last week, the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to strike down the Affordable Care Act. It was a shocking about-face from the previous stance of defending the law's Medicaid expansion, subsidies to make insurance affordable, the rule that young adults can stay on parents' policies until age 26, and the national exchange itself.
Trump said then, "The Republican Party will soon become the party of health care," even though other Republicans said the party had no plan. But Monday night, he redefined "soon," tweeting that the GOP initiative won't be introduced until after the 2020 election.
