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Trump is mailing out checks to fix healthcare, and nobody is buying it

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The administration is flooding mailboxes with insurance discount vouchers, but the public seems to be hitting delete.

So, Donald Trump decided the best way to handle the healthcare debate was to literally send out checks to millions of people. It is a bold move, if by bold you mean suspiciously like a political bribe right before people start paying attention to the polls.

Experts are already calling the whole thing potentially illegal, not that anyone seems shocked by that anymore. People are getting these vouchers in the mail, looking at them, and basically saying, "thanks, but what about the actual system?" It turns out that slapping a name on a piece of paper does not actually fix rising premiums or insurance coverage gaps.

The public is not exactly fooled. Polls show that voters are still side-eying the Republican Party on healthcare, no matter how many checks hit their mailboxes. It is a classic case of trying to fix a leaky boat with a sticker.

Sending a check instead of a policy is a bold way to treat the entire country like a focus group.

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  1. Pumpkin-Spiced Bigfoot
    Wait, is this real? My mailbox has been empty for years lol.
    +1 jokeA tragic tale of an empty mailbox that surely keeps the postal service awake at night
  2. Overworked Linebacker
    Absolute clown show. Imagine thinking a coupon makes up for a broken system.
    +6 solidA scathing critique that correctly identifies the absurdity of treating systemic failure with a paper band-aid