[facepalm]

I remember the complaints that he wasn't proposing something specific before the election. So actually I don't think most people are aware that it is complicated. Otherwise they wouldn't have expected a simple solution.

[pharrington]

People putting the onus on him to do the work and thought and research and discussion necessary to create a tentative plan and at least publicly present an outline of it does not imply they "expected a simple solution." In fact, the problem is precisely that Trump apparently literally thought that creating an Obamacare replacement would be so simple that he just didn't need to think about it at all.

[facepalm]

Or maybe it is/was obvious that there are certain flaws in the US health care system and Obamacare that definitely have a better solution. There are other health care systems in the world, so it is obvious that Obamacare is not the only possible way to do it.

[Gys]

> So actually I don't think most people are aware that it is complicated. Otherwise they wouldn't have expected a simple solution.

In my experience, especially in complicated situations people really crave for simple solutions.

The essence of the success of populist politicians is to say there are simple solutions for all problems. No hard choices are needed.

We can have it all.