Trump's health care plan exposes the truth about his "populism"
Trumps health care plan exposes the truth about his populism
The Republican ticket is taking on Big Cancer Patient.
by Eric Levitz
Sep 18, 2024, 2:10
https://www.vox.com/politics/372635/trump-health-care-plan-vance-preexisting-conditions
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Sen. JD Vance has fashioned himself as a different kind of Republican.
He is an anti-regime, anti-elitist populist who believes that Americas social order is tilted toward the few. He has decried traditional economic conservatism as an ideology that subordinates human life and community to a false ideal of the market somehow existing independent of our society. His conception of a just economy is purportedly informed by Catholic social teaching specifically, the imperative to be sympathetic with the meek and poor of the world without treating them primarily as victims and protective of children and families and with the things necessary to ensure they thrive. In his address to the Republican National Convention, Vance suggested that Trump holds similar priorities, lauding him for narrowing the divide between the few, with their power and comfort in Washington, and the rest of us.
And yet, many of the Republican tickets actual policies bear little trace of this skepticism of markets or concern for the left-behind.
This is especially true of Trumps newly revealed health care plan or, at least, what the campaign has revealed of it. On Sunday, Vance disclosed that the new, anti-regime Republican Partys plan for fixing Americas medical system is
to deregulate the health insurance market so that insurers can refuse coverage to those who need treatment the most.
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