Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Democrats and the Single-Payer Trap

Right now, the Republicans own the health-care issue. Let them keep it.

July 25, 2017 at 12:30 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Democrats relish the Republicans' inability to pass even a pathetic alternative to Obamacare.

For seven and a half years, Republicans have campaigned and voted to replace the Affordable Health Care Act. When given a real chance at success, with governing control, they were impeded by a president who's ignorant on the issue. Then, after Republican senators slipped behind closed doors to come up with their own plans, they provided products that voters, even some Trump supporters, overwhelmingly spotted as frauds.