“Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” That was the quote heard round the world (okay, maybe just round the country) around a month into Trump’s presidency, when it began to dawn on him that getting rid of Obamacare and giving everybody “beautiful” health insurance to replace it wasn’t going to be so easy. And it’s true: health care, which as an industry makes up nearly 1/5 of our economy, is complicated – very complicated.
And that fact has allowed Republicans to demagogue about Obamacare for the past seven years, misleading the public, and terrifying countless Americans about things that exist only in the GOP imagination. That fact also means that even when good faith efforts are made to talk honestly about issues relating to health care, confusion can reign supreme. And unfortunately, that’s what’s been happening with the coverage of Trump’s latest move on Obamacare. Continue reading