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Trump's healthcare promise too sunny for reality

Modern Healthcare: President Donald Trump made a great sounding promise for future healthcare policy in his first television interview since taking office, but policy experts on all sides of the political spectrum said it's not really possible—or at least more complicated.

In interview Wednesday with ABC's David Muir, Trump said the Affordable Care Act has been a disaster and his administration will “come up with a new plan that's going to be better healthcare for more people at a lesser cost.”

Tom Miller, resident fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said that result would require trade-offs, some of which will be unpalatable to voters and any politicians worried about midterm re-election.

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