[Amntn]

Scott Pelley: What's your plan for Obamacare?

Donald Trump: Obamacare's going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at what's going on with premiums where they're up 45, 50, 55 percent.

Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?

Donald Trump: There's many different ways, by the way. Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, "No, no, the lower 25 percent that can't afford private." But--

Scott Pelley: Universal health care?

Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now.

Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of how?

Donald Trump: They're going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably--

Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?

Donald Trump: --the government's gonna pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.

[AuntB]

Trump is also right about negotiating prices with drug companies.

Exactly. We pay more for drugs than any other nation. If the drug companies want the government/medicare business, they need to negotiate.

When this issue came before congress in 2007, several conservatives voted for it, including Ron Paul, Steven LaTourette, Walter Jones, Steve Chabot. The rest were getting big $$ donations from the drug companies. This should have been in Bush’s Part D drug mandated plan, but was left out to keep the drug Companies happy.

http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2007-023.htm

[CA Conservative]

Let's see, you can have a private plan ("you can keep your plan if you like it"), you can have your doctor ("you can keep your doctor if you like him), it's going to save lots of money ("every family will save $2500")... Where have we heard this before??? Oh yeah, this is just how they sold Obamacare to us.

Don't you find it at least a LITTLE bit creepy that Trump is using the same arguments to sell his healthcare plan that Obama used to sell Obamacare?

[nclaurel]

Guess what everyone is already covered that is what Medicaid is and the government already pays. But in current form no one negotiates better pricing. Making a deal with hospitals doesn’t sound so crazy.