Trump’s big mistake on health care was not realizing Republicans were lying - Vox:
Consequently, they’ve [the Rs] done a pretty good job of getting most media outlets to report on their health care assertions as if those assertions are not huge lies.
Not everybody believes them, of course. But there are certainly some demographic groups — white male senior citizens who watch Fox News are constantly high on the list — that are very prone to believing them.
Trump, of course, very much falls into that core audience for Republican Party spin. So when Republican leaders said over and over and over again that they had a plan to replace Obamacare with something better, Trump naturally developed the opinion that they had a plan to replace Obamacare with something better. And if they had had such a plan, it wouldn’t have been difficult to pass it. The legislation turned into a long, hard slog that Trump was unprepared to lead because nothing they said about their plan was even remotely close to true.
Republicans want people to have worse health insurance.
The fundamental reality is that the Republican Party does not believe in providing people with generous social assistance.
GOP budgets would spend less on nutritional assistance, less on housing assistance, less on home heating assistance, less on Pell Grants, less on disability insurance, and generally speaking, less, less, less, less on everything the federal government does to try to support the living standards of the needy.
Health care is not an exception to that rule. So every iteration of Obamacare replacement that Republicans considered would spend less money on helping people get health insurance and consequently leave sicker people and people with higher financial needs worse off.
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