Donald Trump is historically unpopular. I'm real curious why anyone might think he's going to be able to reverse this. And I always think that any president's approval rating contains a lot of people in his party who really don't like the guy and wish he'd quit and go away, but they feel they have to support him because they don't want to give any ground to the opposition party.
Republican politicians including Trump have vowed that their medical plan would take care of people with pre-existing conditions. Oh, it'll take care of them all right. As Jonathan Chait notes, Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price isn't even pretending that that's their goal anymore. The goal now is to put those folks back where they were before Obamacare: Priced out of the insurance market and unable to get any.
If John McCain were uninsured, the surgery he's having now would cost $76,000 — or more than most people make in a year. Also, it's worth noting that the need for the surgery was discovered during a routine check-up. When health costs get bad, the first thing most people do is to skip routine check-ups.
Leonard Pitts Jr. doesn't think we should be asking what's wrong with Trump. He thinks we should be asking what's wrong with us?