Krugman: Vance lets slip one 'concept' of an Obamacare replacement
By Paul Krugman / The New York Times
Donald Trump has been ridiculed, rightly, for his answer, during his debate with Kamala Harris, about whether he had a plan for health care coverage that would either replace or improve upon the Affordable Care Act: “I have concepts of a plan.” He has been running for president or sitting in the White House for nine years, and that’s all he has?
But the other day J.D. Vance, his running mate, gave us a bit more insight into those concepts; concepts that, if implemented, would have the effect of denying health care to millions of Americans, particularly those who need it most.
On Sept. 15 on “Meet the Press,” Vance — after noting that people in good health have very different needs from those with chronic conditions — called for deregulation, saying we should “promote some more choice in our health care system and not have a one-size-fits-all approach that puts a lot of people into the same insurance pools, into the same risk pools.”
It’s not clear whether Vance was laying out a real vision for health policy or just floating his own concepts of a plan. To my ear, however, these remarks by Vance — who is closely associated with the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, one of the architects of Project 2025 — sounded similar to this airy statement in the Project 2025 manifesto:
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/krugam-vance-lets-slip-one-concept-of-an-obamacare-replacement/
Don't get sick. If you do die quickly.
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