Make medicine great again.

• Author: Held, Kristin S.
• Position: WORDS IMAGES - Donald Trump's repeal of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Guest commentary

"It now is clear that [Pres.-elect Donald] Trump will be dealing with a concrete, infantile, psychologically defensive press.... Americans are learning that the media is not a free press, but rather the propaganda claw of statist predators lurking at the far left end of the swamp ... which more resembles a cesspool.

AMERICANS ARE LEARNING that the media is not a free press, but rather the propaganda claw of statist predators lurking at the far left end of the swamp. Pres.-elect Donald Trump was but a few days out from his media-exposing election, and the swamp monsters already were out baiting and snapping at every word he uttered, reporting their catches out of context, scented with leftist dogma. Apparently, they never will stop attempting to create the false narrative that Trump will renege on his campaign promises. Their goal: to undermine his trustworthiness and integrity from day one.

Throughout the campaign, candidate Trump pledged to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) and vowed to convene a special session of Congress to begin this work as one of the first things he will do once he takes office. He has outlined a commonsense approach to patient-centered health policy and has announced that Rep. Tom Price (R.-Ga.) will be his Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Those of us who entrusted Trump with our vote believe he will do precisely what he said he would do.

When asked whether there are any features of ObamaCare he would like to keep, Trump said he supported the availability of insurance coverage to people with preexisting conditions, and allowing adult children up to age 26 to stay on their parents' policy. These two features drive up cost, but are regarded as desirable by most Americans. Rather than laud President-elect Trump for "flexibility," the swamp media accuses him of defaulting on his ObamaCare repeal promise.

This technique actually is a projection of the modus operandi of the media's preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, who espouses separate public and private stances on issues and follows Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, onto Donald Trump. We must not allow this false narrative to morph into what people perceive as truth, as happens when lies are repeated over and over again.

Since it now is clear that Trump will be dealing with a concrete, infantile, psychologically defensive press, he must take this into account--starting now. Example one: completely get rid of...