Pandemic upends Trump’s plans to shrink health care safety net

Pandemic upends Trump’s plans to shrink health care safetynet-politico:  Trump has moved forcefully to push unprecedented limits on government health assistance for the poor, trying to follow through on conservatives’ long-held goals for reshaping the health care safety net.  That ambition has slammed into a brick wall amid the coronavirus — with the help of Republican states wary of cutting back health coverage for their poorest residents during a pandemic.