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The Great Healthcare Plan

Definition

Possibly the purest distillation of Trump-era branding: a healthcare plan whose name is also its entire description. It's great, it's about healthcare, it's a plan — three claims delivered with total confidence, no further detail required. Notably, he's promised something better than Obamacare since before his first term in 2017, and nearly a decade later there's still no actual plan on the table — only its name. In practice, the Big Beautiful Bill removed roughly 3 million people from health insurance in 2025, shifting that spending away from coverage and into tax breaks for him and his billionaire friends. Now an official White House initiative, proving that repeating a name with enough conviction can pass for policy. See also: Concept of a Plan, Big Beautiful Bill.

Example

"We will pass the great healthcare plan. It's called our great healthcare plan. That's the name of it."

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