Having had five months to ponder health care since he discovered it to be “unbelievably complex,” what has President Trump learned about this life-and-death domestic policy problem? It’s “tough,” he said this week, even tougher than brokering Middle East peace (one of many jobs assigned to his polymath son-in-law, Jared Kushner).

And how does Trump hope to solve this eternal conundrum? With “something that’s really good and that people are going to like” — and by being “very angry” if the Senate, which is expected to take up the issue again next week, fails to present a really good, eminently likable something to him.

The latest attempt to translate into legislation Trump’s vague but primal urge to undo his predecessor’s health care law reflects the fundamental ignorance, irrationality and amorality of the president’s approach. While Trump has endlessly disparaged “Obamacare” as a “disaster,” it is he who seems consumed by the desire to put his name on something — anything — and damn the consequences for the country. The Senate’s latest health care bill remains similarly preoccupied with cobbling together a political win regardless of the policy impact.

The legislation, resurrected this week after a first attempt failed to hold together the Republicans’ narrow majority, retains provisions rolling back the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid coverage and its mandate to obtain health insurance. As such it can be counted on, like its Senate predecessor and the bill narrowly passed by the House, to return more than 20 million Americans to the ranks of the uninsured and unravel the Affordable Care Act’s signature achievement.

In an effort to placate conservative Republicans who believe the earlier version fell short of their long-promised, ideologically pure Obamacare repeal, the new bill would authorize low-cost plans offering minimal coverage. It also adds $70 billion to subsidize higher-cost plans that many older and sicker Americans would be forced to obtain — which sounds ironically like the ACA provisions that Republicans have attacked as a “bailout” of insurers.

At the same time, to win over moderates rightly concerned about the dire repercussions for their most vulnerable constituents, the bill includes consolations such as $45 billion in spending to address the opioid epidemic — a poor substitute for health coverage for those needing addiction treatment. One Trump supporter told CNN that taking away Medicaid coverage for mental health and other services would usher in something “like the zombie apocalypse.”

The best that can be said about the Senate legislation is that it is already exhibiting the symptoms of a temporarily reanimated cadaver. Two Republican senators have said they won’t vote to proceed; one more defection could return it to the legislative graveyard where it belongs.