The debacle shows President Trump and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, that they can’t count on automatic Republican majorities, especially when they’re offering a destructive, incoherent measure. The percentage of Americans who do not have health insurance has fallen to 9.1 percent, from 16.3 percent in 2010. More generous subsidies for people with modest incomes could bring the cost of health care down at a relatively small expense to the government. The worry now among advocates for lower-income Americans and the sick is that the Trump administration might seek to undermine the health care law through administrative steps. For Mr. Trump, it is a rather brutal reminder that campaigning is the easy part.

Source: New York Times March 25, 2017 00:45 UTC