Posted on 02/19/2016 12:18:37 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Donald Trump has often promised to repeal the “disaster” that is Obamacare and he’s right, it is a disaster.
But at Thursday night’s CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall in South Carolina, Donald Trump embraced what is easily the worst part of Obamacare, the anti-free market “individual mandate” which forces Americans to buy only government-approved health care insurance, whether they want to or not.
To justify his support for the Obamacare mandate, Donald Trump uses leftist talking points of not wanting people to “die in the streets,” as if they has ever happened in America — before or after Obamacare.
Here’s how Donald Trump answered CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night (emphasis added):
DONALD TRUMP:“Well, I like the mandate. OK. So here’s where I’m a little bit different. I don’t want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time. And I say this – look, I did five speeches, maybe six speeches today. We had a lot of rallies. We had of thousands and thousands of people. I mean, we get big crowds.“
Allow me to break down the “logic” of this:
WATCH BELOW:
Just a negotiating ploy, yeah that’s what it is.
GO TED CRUZ! PEOPLE DYING IN THE STREETS, 2016!
The flailing is amusing. They must be freaking out because Trump did such an excellent job at the town hall.
“LOL. Just a few hours to go before the Donald wins SC. My family and I just canât wait to vote for him tomorrow.”
Between this desperate repost bait and that goofy NBC poll the Cruz people are hugging for dear life, it just looks sad.
Trump is likely to win by at least 10+. Rubio a close 2nd ahead of Cruz.
Cruz is already leaving the state tomorrow. He is pulling an actual Carson!
Then what mandate is it? Because the only things that ever have been called "the mandate" with respect to Obamacare are the individual mandate (buy insurance for yourself or get fined) and the employer mandate (buy insurance for your employees or get fined).
Some of the people will never see the truth.
I hope you are not one of them.
I don’t understand why TWO DEAD TERRORISTS have ANY privacy rights. EFF THAT! Unlock the damn phone. There are hackers out there who have ALREADY figured out Apple’s encryption ANYWAY. YOU KNOW APPLE HAS, they are just PRETENDING they haven’t.
Good.
What’s funny?
You could also vote for Hillary and your person would likely win.
What’s the difference?
The requirement that insurance companies cover people with pre-existing conditions is inextricably linked with the mandate (that was the point of Cooper's question).
Trump is not losing support. Trump’s mandate is that everybody is taken care of. Private insurance for most and a safety net. I hate this word parsing and attempting to jump on every phrase. His positions are clear.
Is that really what he said word for word?
You think more socialism will make America great again? Trump is destroying conservatism before your very eyes. What are you doing here at FR if what you want is socialized healthcare?
The mandate for everyone to have insurance is the mandate which says that everyone must purchase insurance. That mandate is what made it affordable for the insurance companies to offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Basically you have to force all of the healthy people to buy insurance so that the insurance companies can afford to offer insurance to those who already have serious health problems.
Shameless attempt to re-write the question to say what yo want to hear not what it actually says.
In context the question is “how to cover pre existing contituions”, not the over all mandate which, when you listen to the whole town hall, Trump makes clear he would repeal.
Excellent Graphic.
It seems to me this country wants to be rid of the Bushes and their protégée the Clinton group
Trump is the only one who can do that
That’s all
We know the Clintons will take us to oblivion. Trump might not
That’s the bumper sticker
I hate this word parsing and attempting to jump on every phrase. His positions are clear.
When you support a beltway lawyer, I guess you do your best to try and act like one. :/
Even in the mogul's own words he says he changes his spots to take any position to get "any kind of deal". You are looking at a man who will more than likely cut all kinds of RINO deals with the DEMOCRAPS on Capitol Hill, rather than the scorched earth, unapologetic Conservatism we need urgently to undo Obama's treachery. So you know what I think about this so-called "Common Sense Conservatism". As if there is Conservatism that is nonsense, or somehow lacking in "common sense"?! He equivocates right and left as to who he likes and dislikes, or his stance, particularly modified when he commits a gaffe that he later has second thoughts on.
Caveat friggin Emptor, guys.
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