MaddowBlog-'We could come up with a new system': On the ACA, Trump has an unintentionally funny line [View all]

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“We could come up with a new system that would be much better” than Obamacare, the president said, seemingly unaware of his own record.

Trump declared just hours ahead of the shutdown deadline, “We could come up with a new system that would be much better” than the ACA.

Oh? He could? Is that why we’ve been waiting for a decade for a health care plan that he said years ago was “two weeks” away? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-01T17:33:24.522Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-come-new-system-aca-trump-unintentionally-funny-line-rcna234929

Summarizing the dispute, the editorial board of The New York Times explained, “What the two parties are fighting about is whether Americans should have access to affordable health care. President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance, and Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.”

So, with just hours remaining before the shutdown deadline, the president made fresh comments about the existing system.

Trump threatens to repeal the Affordable Care Act:

"Obamacare is not a good thing. It's been bad... We could come up with a new system"

— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T17:01:02.00588247Z

“Obamacare is not a good thing. It’s been bad,” Trump said, deriding the popular and effective health care reform law. He added that he’s told congressional Democrats, “We could come up with a new system that would be much better.”

The comments came a few months after the president also said he and his party had “a chance to actually do a health care that is much better than Obamacare.”

By all appearances, he has no idea why this is laughable......

We’ve been waiting for quite a while. In mid-July 2020, for example, as part of his re-election campaign, Trump appeared on Fox News and said, “We’re signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan.”

As regular readers might recall, two weeks went by, and the “full and complete” health care plan was nowhere to be found. As July 2020 neared its end, the then-president was pressed for some kind of explanation. He told reporters, “We’re going to be doing a very inclusive health care plan. I’ll be signing it sometime very soon. It might be Sunday [Aug. 2], but it’s going to be very soon.”,,,,,

That was five years ago this month. Keep this in mind as Trump, apparently indifferent to appearances, declares, “We could come up with a new system that would be much better.”