Just as NCS was reporting on President Donald Trump’s plans to unveil a brand new well being care proposal, the Trump administration postponed the announcement — in a second that performed out dwell on air in hilarious vogue.
During the two p.m. ET hour of NCS News Central, anchor Jessica Dean returned from a business break to kick off a section on Trump’s plan. She started by briefly detailing the reported framework:
We’re studying President Trump is planning to unveil a brand new well being care proposal. And at this level we’re nonetheless ready to know precisely what’s in it, however we’re advised it may embrace a short lived extension of the improved Affordable Care Act subsidies, that are on account of expire on the finish of the yr. They have been on the middle of the federal government shutdown. However, the subsidies may include some recent guardrails that might embrace new earnings limits and a requirement that everybody pay some type of a premium. Now, we should always notice that if the subsidies do expire, tens of millions of Americans are anticipated to see their premiums greater than double subsequent yr.
Dean then launched Yale University professor Zack Cooper to debate the reported plan. In the center of that introduction, nonetheless, she acquired phrase that the Trump administration had already pushed the announcement back. And the sudden pivot was pure comedy.
Zack Cooper is becoming a member of us now. He’s a professor of well being coverage at Yale University. Zach, thanks for being right here. As I famous, we’re very a lot nonetheless ready for specifics right here, however — and I’m sorry, this has really been — sorry Zach, we’re getting breaking information whereas I’m speaking to you. I’ve discovered that the White House has postponed its anticipated unveiling of this new well being care proposal. It was anticipated to be unveiled at this time. We’ll study extra, hopefully, about that within the coming moments, however once more, this is postponed.