On CNN, Chuck Todd discussed the Trump Administration’s actions to deal with healthcare costs and the political debate how to reform it:

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Notably, when he talked about increases to health care insurance plans today, the president blamed Democrats, as he often does. He also talked about taking on health insurance companies and delivering money that often goes to those insurance companies, to American voters. How he actually gets that done has been baffling. There’s been no actual roadmap for Republicans going back, going back years. Is that something that is that something that voters need to see, though? Will that persuade them? CHUCK TODD: I don’t look, the problem that the president and Republicans have is that already voters believe Democrats are better on health care than Republicans, right? It’s one of those givens in the same way. Republicans are trusted more in immigration than Democrats. There’s sometimes there’s some issues that are sort of already baked in as sort of unfavorable to one side and favorable to the other. So he’s already got a public that doesn’t trust the Republican Party on health care. And his plan is just blame the Democrats more. Again, this didn’t work in 2018. They’ve had, what are we up to? This law passed in March of 2010. The Republican Party’s had nearly 16 years to come up with an alternative. And look, it is easy to beat up insurance companies. If I were in his position, I’d beat him up, too. Except there’s one problem. What other, our system works this way. The only way you get health care is either one of two things. You show up in an emergency room because you don’t have insurance or you do have insurance and you find out who, what your insurance will cover. But at the end of the day, this is the system that we all have. So you can beat up insurance companies all you want. Well, if you can say, fine, we’ll give you the money directly. Well, where’s the money going to go? To buy insurance. And the only way you’re going to get cheaper insurance is to create insurance that doesn’t cover anything, i.e. essentially allowing insurance companies to to essentially charge you more for a pre-existing condition, which, of course, the whole point of the Affordable Care Act was to make that illegal. So which of which, of course, voters think is really, you know, they they don’t want to be prejudiced against financially due to a pre-existing condition. So I the rhetoric feels good. Beat up the insurance companies. Democrats just want to give insurance company what’s your alternative plan? And that’s the problem. And voters are really well educated about the health care issue. Right. Health care is one of those things. Very personal. We’re all experts about our own health care. And so he’s going to have a hard time convincing people that he’s got a plan here because they’ve because for how long have they been promising a plan to be a little snarky hit here, a concept of a plan or whatever?

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