We need to stop giving Trump a pass on his ignorance
By Brian Klaas
March 27 at 2:43 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted that “the Republican Party will become the Party of Healthcare!” There’s just one big problem: Trump has no clue how the health-care system actually works.
During a July 2017 interview with the New York Times, Trump tried to explain policy around preexisting conditions. “Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan.”
That bizarre attempted explanation left just about everyone scratching their head and asking an incredible question: Does the president of the United States know how health insurance works? And what planet do you have to be on to believe that a year of private health insurance costs roughly the same as three cups of coffee from Starbucks?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/27/we-need-stop-giving-trump-pass-his-ignorance/?utm_term=.fa0609e158fd
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