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Trump Is No Friend of Free Market Health Care
American Spectator ^ | 8/10/2015 | David Catron

Posted on 08/10/2015 4:43:51 AM PDT by rootin tootin

Most of Donald Trump’s public statements include the rote declaration that Obamacare is a disaster. This is true, of course, but it doesn’t tell us anything new. It’s only when he starts elaborating on his objections that one gets a sense of what he believes, and he doesn’t talk like a friend of the free market. During last week’s Republican debate, for example, he was asked about his past praise of single-payer health care and replied, “As far as single-payer, it works in Canada, works incredibly well in Scotland.” This answer was both antithetical to free-market thinking and profoundly ignorant.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamacare; singlepayer; trump
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To: dfwgator
history proves Perot was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM

But, lets not stop the “read my lips” candiate.

121 posted on 08/10/2015 10:47:59 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: magglepuss

I’m for America - and what could be worse than another liberal president?

We need conservative candidates who can actually take 270+ electoral college votes.

If we can’t do that - we are just howling at the moon.


122 posted on 08/10/2015 10:48:02 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

Are you really for America?


123 posted on 08/10/2015 10:49:47 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: magglepuss

Lol! Yawn.


124 posted on 08/10/2015 10:56:29 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

i will take that to mean a no.


125 posted on 08/10/2015 10:57:54 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: magglepuss

Take it however you want


126 posted on 08/10/2015 11:01:33 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

Look, I am proud of my Perot vote. You seem to like party unity at all costs. I just don’t agree.


127 posted on 08/10/2015 11:04:35 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: Scotswife

so how is the gop working out for you? That is if you really mean what you say you want.


128 posted on 08/10/2015 11:17:54 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: magglepuss

Actually I’ve been an independent for awhile now. But now I’m thinking ill switch back to R just to vote in primaries.


129 posted on 08/10/2015 11:20:38 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: rootin tootin
“I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees and if I’m negotiating in New York or New Jersey or California, I have, like, one bidder. Nobody can bid. You know why? The insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.”

Shame on the author and everyone else who is rabid anti-Trump! Trump also said that because of state borders he only gets one bid. He wants to get rid of health care providers that can only reply to an RFP if they are in the state. Shame on FReepers for not carefully listening to the debate and shame on the author for lying by omission.

130 posted on 08/10/2015 11:26:28 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Scotswife

do what you gotta do.


131 posted on 08/10/2015 11:41:09 AM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on)
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To: Jim Noble

medicare might, but that doesn’t weaken my point at all.


132 posted on 08/10/2015 12:52:56 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: Just mythoughts
Socialized medicine was accomplished by the hands of elected Republicans. And people are worried Trump is going to tarnish the GOP brand.

The first point is so silly I won't even comment...as for the second, some are worried about that - but that is not my concern nor is anything I said pointing to that.

133 posted on 08/10/2015 12:54:14 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: magglepuss

no, perot made the party lines vague.


134 posted on 08/10/2015 12:55:42 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: magglepuss

because the sucking sound was not caused by what Perot thought was causing it.


135 posted on 08/10/2015 12:59:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: magglepuss

Are you really for America? You think a socialist will be best for America?


136 posted on 08/20/2015 12:20:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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