"Would you want a 70 year old person to be trained as a fighter pilot? Would you want him or her as a fireman, trying to carry people out of a fire?" No, but t

"Would you want a 70 year old person to be trained as a fighter pilot? Would you want him or her as a fireman, trying to carry people out of a fire?" No, but those aren't the jobs under consideration here. The President can usually check with advisors and take five minutes or a couple of weeks to work out a response. "Nuclear button" is the only one of the items listed that would be a five-minute response; policies can easily wait a week or more to work out. How long did it take to put the ACA together?