Remember when, nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump promised to replace Obamacare with something “terrific” within his first 100 days in office? Or when he said in 2020 that he would unveil his health care plan within “two weeks”? Well, guess what; it’s all happening any day now.

Final question: Have you heard of the phrase, “Good things come to those who wait”?

This isn’t that.

Say what you want about the Democrats’ shutdown strategy and their ultimate surrender, at least they put a spotlight on health care and the GOP’s total lack of a plan, which has caused Trump and senior Republicans to once again pretend that they have one they are just about to roll out.

They don’t… unless you consider kicking millions of Americans off Medicaid a “health care plan.”

And because there is no plan, it’s been a sight to behold to watch them all fumble around the past couple of weeks.

First of all, there is Trump himself.

Before we get into his brilliant idea to save health care, you have to remember that the president is a buffoon.

“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” he wrote in a social media post.

Remember how we just said that Trump is a buffoon? Well, if it took him a decade to come up with this ingenious proposal, then he is an even bigger idiot than we thought.

Listen, we are no friends of health insurance companies, and curbing their profits is one place to start when addressing why Americans pay more to get worse care than people in peer nations that provide universal health care.

But Trump’s “plan” makes no sense.

Most importantly, he wants Americans to get money back from the government so that they can “purchase their own, much better, healthcare.” But who, exactly, does he think they would purchase this insurance from?

Of course, some might just keep that money to have a few extra bucks in their pockets. And that’s all well and good… right until they get sick and then can’t pay for overpriced medical services.

The most likely explanation for why Trump posted this nonsense is that he believes that Obamacare is government health insurance, like Medicare or Medicaid (which it expanded). Of course, that’s not what it is at all.

Instead, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) created a health insurance marketplace through which Americans could buy their insurance.

Ever since it was passed, Republicans have been trying to dismantle the law, but always without providing any kind of alternative.

Just like now.

Of course, they always pretend that they have their own brilliant ideas that they are on the cusp of revealing.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for example, has repeatedly touted a secret plan that Republicans are not yet ready to disclose.

And Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said on Tuesday that the administration has some “ideas that we are still working on.”

What we do know is that Senate Republicans have found just the guy who can craft their health care bill: Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

Referring to Trump’s social media posts, he proclaimed that he is writing “the bill right now.”

To be fair, Scott seems like the perfect person to come up with the GOP’s health care bill. After all, he served as the CEO of the largest for-profit hospital chain in the US… until he was forced to resign when the company came under criminal investigation and ultimately had to pay $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.