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Trump's Voters Have Been Betrayed on Healthcare, Bigly

• https://fee.org, Jeffrey A. Tucker

The glorious reform had "lame" written all over it. A mandate with penalties paid to government is replaced with a mandate to pay insurance companies plus a refundable tax credit which might actually cost more in the future than the present system. 

You might say, as Reason observed, that it is "better than nothing." True, and Khrushchev's economic ideas were an improvement on Stalin's. Still, it's another central plan, providing no real substantial room for new innovation, competition, or genuine market forces. 

When the bill was released on March 7, Trump tweeted: "Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation."

This tweet shattered the illusion that something dramatically pro-freedom would actually happen. Despite GOP control of the House, Senate, Executive Branch, and even a free-market minded head of the Health and Human Services, the proposed reform is something that these very same people would have decried as socialism eight years ago.


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