An epidemic of ignorance

Seventeen percent of survey respondents didn't know that the Affordable Care Act and "Obamacare" were the same thing.

And President Trump said that "nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated."

Maybe if the president knew more about the challenge of providing healthcare to an entire nation than those 17% of folks who didn't even know that the ACA and Obamacare were the same thing, he wouldn't have been so surprised.

On an unrelated subject, there was the recent occasion on which President Trump lauded Frederick Douglass--deceased in 1895--as "somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

It's too bad that ignorance can't be cured by doctors.  Then maybe people wouldn't have to, you know, read.