Welcome to the Cato podcast.

I'm Michael Cannon, the Director of Health Policy Studies here at the Cato Institute.

And I'm here with our senior fellow, Dr. Jeffrey Singer, who's joining us from Phoenix, Arizona.

How are you, Jeff?

Great.

And this week we are going to be discussing some things that have been coming from the White House on health policy.

Yeah, one of the things that I was excited to see come from the White House was a truth social post recently that actually mentioned you by name and gave a shout out to your proposal on allowing basically

the successful reform on short-term limited duration plans that the Trump first administration did

to make them into actual statute.

And not the only thing we got the, from the, thank you for mentioning that, Jeff.

But that wasn't the only thing we got from the White House in the past week.

The president also issued a new health reform proposal.

What did he call it? The world's greatest health plan or the

great health care plan. The great health care plan. Nice and wow. Very simple. Who could argue with that?

So, and it was a little bit of a disappointment, I think, that the stuff that he mentioned in that

true social posts, which really was one great big long quote that he attributed to me and that

was broadly faithful to comments that I've made about short-term plans, it didn't really appear

in the plan that he put forward.

So we should talk about that.

Why don't I give a summary of what was in that true social post?

Then we'll talk about each of the elements of the plan and what is good, what is bad, and what could be better about it.

Sounds good.

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