I promise I will keep this one short: So awful is the new Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, so manifestly will it fail, and so maladroit its construction, that some of our more cynical observers have taken to thinking along somewhat different lines. That is to say they believe the Republican leadership is […]

As a short addendum to what I have been saying recently about health care and the Republican efforts to ‘reform’ it I want to add the following: One of the major obstacles the Republicans face is that Trump has virtually no interest in policy making. This is remarkable. He seems not to like, let alone […]