So much for President Trump’s promise to deliver a health care plan that will “have insurance for everybody” and health care “that is far less expensive and far better.”

Trumpcare is an unmitigated disaster.

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Who does it help? The wealthiest Americans and the profits of insurance companies.

The plan would be cataclysmic for health care in California, where one-third of the population — 13 million people — are covered by Medi-Cal. By a conservative estimate, the state stands to receive $8 billion less a year from the federal government to cover its health care costs for low-income families qualifying for Medi-Cal.

In addition, as many as 4 million Californians would likely lose the health insurance coverage they receive through Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act program, including hundreds of thousands in the Bay Area.

But wait. It gets worse.

Despite the dramatic effects of this plan nationwide, Ryan wants to ram it through Congress.

Republicans like to pretend President Obama and Democrats in Congress in 2009 didn’t try to work with them on health care reform. They imply it was rushed through without debate.

Were we as impolite as President Trump, we would say: Lies!

In spring of 2009, Senate Democrats created a “Gang of Six” — three Democrats and three Republicans. They were charged with crafting a grand bargain that would generate widespread bipartisan support. It’s where the notion of an individual mandate and state exchanges involving private insurers was born, to the chagrin of many Democrats.

The debate raged for months before Democrats eventually were forced to move forward on their own. Before the Affordable Care Act was passed in March, 2010, it had been reviewed multiple times by the independent Congressional Budget Office, as efforts were made to keep it from adding to the nation’s deficit. The CBO ultimately said the ACA would pay for itself. The projections proved overly optimistic, but Republicans and Democrats had a chance to review the report and debate it.

Ryan wants the full House to act on his plan before it goes into recess April 7. Why? Because he knows the independent CBO scoring will show how disastrous the GOP plan is for everyone but the rich.

Taking health care subsidies away from low-income Californians won’t lower the nation’s health care bills. It means people won’t receive the preventive care they’ve been getting under the Affordable Care Act. Without it, preventable or controllable diseases or conditions become chronic or catastrophic.

Hospitals and doctors, by law, must deliver that treatment when the indigent show up at emergency rooms, where treatment is magnitudes more expensive with poorer outcomes. County taxpayers end up paying the bill.

The Republican bill this week is under assault from all directions: from liberals for the tax giveaway to the rich, from conservatives for the failure to fully repeal Obamacare and from moderates in both parties alarmed about taking insurance away from potentially millions of people, many of whom vote.

The battle may not be entirely over. But it’s pretty easy to see who’s losing. And it’s not the well-insured members of Congress.