Danielle Kurtzleben

And if you think you've heard that before, yeah, you have.

You have heard this since Trump first got into office back in 2017, way back when you had him and all sorts of congressional Republicans saying, hey, we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Well, now that is not exactly Trump's central messaging.

That's not what he's leaning into, at the very least, when he's talking about this new great health care plan that he has.

outlined yesterday at the White House.

Instead, this is part of his whole affordability messaging, which is, I have ideas for how I'm going to bring all these costs down.

Let me tell you about them.

Now, the big question, of course, and Sam will speak to this, is how much appetite Congress has not only for passing something like that, but even for putting it together.

Because what Trump has outlined is

Is some big, big changes.

And so will Republicans in Congress go for that?

And also, is Trump willing to push them on that?

How serious is he or is this just messaging?

And this is purely from a political standpoint, a heck of a strategy for Republicans, because Democrats, very broadly speaking, tend to poll better, do better when they message on health care, when they run on health care.

We have seen that in past midterms.

Voters in recent years, they've liked Republicans on immigration, defense, often the economy.

But Democrats, they got health care.

And so for Republicans to be leaning into health care right now,

Again, purely politically, that is a bet in a midterm year.

Ever since especially Democrats won a whole bunch of off-year elections in November touting, again, this is their framing of it, affordability, which you can call any number of things, by the way.