I pay as little attention as I can these days to what Donald Trump is saying or doing — more than I'd like but not as much as I might. One thing I do look at is the occasional time (maybe twice a year) when he says something about improving the health care system in this country. While running for office, he promised the greatest, most super-terrific, efficient and affordable health insurance plan ever and since he got the job, he's done as much about it as you and I have. Maybe less.
Aware that he might have to answer for that in debates or elsewhere — for some odd reason, health and hospitalization are on some folks' minds these days — he just came up with a proposal which he says will lower the costs of prescriptions. I am skeptical that Donald J. Trump ever wants to do anything that would cut even a teensy but into the income of large companies…so I'm skeptical about that.
Kevin Drum takes a look at the four elements of Trump's plan and finds — surprise, surprise — that they probably wouldn't amount to much of anything. Because in politics today, if you can say you've done something, you really don't need to actually do it.