bandage

[…]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

[…] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.

this new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis