Miracle cure

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Washington, where a bipartisan remedy to a health-insurance crisis of the President’s own making — restoring subsidies that enable insurance companies to offer plans with affordable copays, and taking other steps to stabilize, not sabotage, Obamacare markets — counts as a major breakthrough.

Including, bizarrely, by Trump himself, who sent health care markets into a tizzy by killing the subsidies on Friday, and as recently as Tuesday defended his move as nixing useless pork “going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price.”

The man who last year offered himself to frustrated Americans as a consummate dealmaker has only brought Democrats and Republicans together through the incompetence of his leadership.

Through four failed Affordable Care Act repeal attempts, Trump refused to engage on details — choosing instead to tout the plans as “terrific,” except when, in retrospect, he called one “mean.” Then he lashed out, promising to drive health care as we know it into the ground as punishment.

Finally, grownups are trying to fix the flawed law. Republican Lamar Alexander and Democrat Patty Murray’s modest bill would legislatively restore for the next two years the subsidies, give states more flexibility on pricing Obamacare plans to entice younger, healthier people into the markets and fund public outreach the administration previously eliminated.

It’s a no-brainer fix. Which is far from a guarantee that it has any chance of passage in the Republican-controlled House.