Obamacare??

Replacing the previous administration's medical care system is not as easy as the Trumpsters first thought.

It's probably because any such system is easily targeted by opportunists.

Here's a little anecdote my mother once related re: Medicare, the birthplace of politically-administered health care.

Medicare was first enacted in Saskatchewan back in '47 when CCF premier Tommy Douglas initiated it because he saw as inhumane the idea of sick people with no cash deposit expiring on the hospital steps.

One day, about 30 years later, one of my mother's elderly neighbors invited her over for lunch. The frail little old lady said she could eat at home only to the middle of each month. That was as long as her old age pension lasted, because her unemployable middle-aged bachelor son needed the money to support his alcoholic addiction.

So what did she do? She pretended she was sick and got herself checked into the local hospital where they fed her, provided a bed and care for the remainder of the month until her next pension check arrived.

Apparently, the hospital administration found this acceptable because they could maintain a more desirable quota of occupied beds. The doctors, as part of the system, went along with that.

This was in a small western town where everybody knew everybody. The potential for such abuse in a metropolitan area infested with opportunists of every stripe is staggering.

Republican lawmakers have every right to see universal Health Care as a field fertile with landmines. This is very likely a problem Donald Trump never had to think about in his private life.

He's thinking about it now.