, Columnist
The Guessing Games Republicans Play on Health Care
Even Trump’s point man on this enormous issue is waiting for answers.
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Tea-leaf readers, stop straining those prophetic eyeballs: The future of Republican health-care policy will be just as clear if you stare into a random pile of vegetable matter.
Trump is a cipher, having clearly never given the matter much thought himself; congressional Republicans want to repeal Obamacare to please their base, but somehow do it without upsetting the people who will thereby lose coverage. In between them is the nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, a man of firm convictions, but unclear mandate to enact his ideas.