Amazingly, as I write this, the United States Senate is preparing to vote on a bill to repeal Obamacare and replace it with…well, nobody seems to know but a lot of Republican senators are certain to vote for it. It's not certain they'll ever read it or know what's in it but they'll vote for it and Donald Trump has pledged to sign it, whatever it is. Apparently, getting something done is more important than knowing what you're doing.
What do we need in this country in terms of health care? Well, some people are saying "Medicare for All" but as Ed Kilgore explains, that's not what we need. That wouldn't work very well without a lot of alteration of Medicare.
Chase Madar believes we need Universal Health Care and predicts that within five years, the American right will concur and we'll have it. Read that article if you have time. It's called "The Conservative Case for Universal Healthcare" and I like the line about how one reason they'll embrace it is because "If we switched to single payer or another form of socialized medicine, we would actually have more money to spend on even more useless military hardware."
Meanwhile, the newest prediction about what Trump will do seems to be that he'll dump Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, then make a recess appointment (no Congressional approval necessary) of someone who will shut down all investigations of anyone named Trump or anyone close to anyone named Trump. Yes, that's certainly the act of an innocent man. Jonathan Chait has more.
Matthew Yglesias says that Trump's approval rating is plunging. This may be so according to some polls but here at newsfromme.com, we're against poll-hopping. That's where you believe Poll A when it tells you what you want to hear and when it doesn't, you switch to Poll B which does. We're sticking with the 538 Aggregate, which currently has Trump at 39.0% Approval and 55.3% Disapproval. That's bad but it's not markedly worse than it's been for weeks. My feeling is that he's not going to lose a lot of his current supporters until such time as they see an alternative out there — someone they'd rather see in the White House in 2020.