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Trump Repackages Random Ideas Into ‘Great Healthcare Plan’

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For many years, dating all the way back to 2015, Donald Trump has promised he’d someday offer a health-care plan to replace Obamacare. For months Republicans have fretted over allegations that they are clueless or heartless about rising health-care costs, exacerbated by their refusal to extend expiring Obamacare-premium subsidies received by around 22 million Americans. They’ve tossed out a bunch of random conservative health-care panaceas, as has Trump, mostly revolving around health savings accounts and other individualistic measures for undermining Obamacare-style regulated insurance markets.

Today, without any warning, Trump released a video claiming a bunch of these well-worn ideas represent the “

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