“That response was directly after Letterman challenged Trump’s claim that there was waste and fraud in the system.”
Most of the waste and fraud harms the Doctors and lowers their incomes due to government programs where the Doctor it hospital is left unpaid and have to cover it.
I’m sorry, but the growth in health care costs is full of waste, made possible to a large extent by a lack of competition and no real incentive or ability for a lot of consumers to apply market considerations. I think Trump sees that as low-hanging fruit. I know I would love to have a large HSA that I could roll over along with a high-deductible plan that kicks in at the upper limit of my HSA. Instead, Obamacare trimmed my HSA contibutions down, and I can’t roll it over.