Posted on 09/28/2015 11:27:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
YoutTube Video: Donald Trump Endorses Universal Health Care - "The Government's Gonna Pay For It."
On Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes on CBS, Donald Trump said that “Obamacare is a disaster” and that he plans to repeal it and replace it with a government-funded universal healthcare plan.
During the lengthy interview, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley asked billionaire real estate mogul and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump his position on healthcare reform.
“Obamacare’s going to be repealed and replaced.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 40, 50, 55 percent,” replied Trump.
Pelley then pressed him to offer his own specific plan for fixing the U.S. healthcare system.
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Trump began explaining, “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…”
Pelley then interrupted, noting that Trump was describing a universal healthcare plan.
Trump continued, “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.”
The real estate billionaire then explained that he “would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care” of uninsured Americans.
When Pelley asked him to clarify who would pay for the plan, Trump replied, “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.
It will be a combination of private and something to cover poor & low income.
“That’s where I may be a little bit different from the [other] people,” the real estate magnate told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “You can’t let the people in this country, the people without the money and resources, to go without healthcare.”
So what would your hero of the world, Senator Cruz do? What’s his plan, Stan! Whaddya say Faye?
Is Cruz gonna repeal Obama care and dump Medicaid too?
Better yet ask the goon squads what their candidate will do? How come they only want Trump’s policy? Very interesting, eh Lurker?
Oh, Arturo, just what is your candidates plan, eh? Not to repeal Obamacare? Dump Medicaid?
“That’s where I may be a little bit different from the [other] people,” the real estate magnate told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “You can’t let the people in this country, the people without the money and resources, to go without healthcare.”
I hear they do a great job with chemotherapy.
“I didn’t hear it, but sounds like he’s talking about a private system but where government guarantees to pay for the poor (”Deals with hospitals”). I would say Jury’s out.”
That’s what we had before Obamacare. And what the Republican counter to Obamacare was - a government-funded catastrophic policy.
We can’t get away from the government (ie, taxpayers) footing the bill for the low-income and no-income crowd.
Trump needs to come out with specifics, like reforms about suing doctors and hospitals to control costs, before he speaks off-handedly.
Yea, his first 3 written proposals on his website were so incoherent/s
Correct as far as I know. There are two conditions I'd like to see placed on that:
A) They have to be truly poor, and must pay some amount of co-pay when treated.
B) It should be a basic plan, and an income based "sliding scale" used to determine their premium contribution, their payment ranging from 0 to 90% of full premium.
With affordable group plans coming back, as people gain employment they would likely drop the subsidized plan for a better one from their employer.
All carriers would be required to offer the sub/premium base plan. The government would otherwise not administer any coverage.
Medicaid would cease to exist.
Agreed—that’s a good approach.
Trump proposed nothing of the kind. I am tired of the lies going out.
Yeah, it is always the same people, yet they don’t hve any detailed plan from whomever it is they support.
They get breathless thinking they are so right, instead they are wasting their breath.
You are exactly correct. Despite the title of this article, which is sometimes all that we posters sometimes read before we react, the contents of the article says exactly what you are saying. Hospitals who have to shell out money for uninsured Americans will be reimbursed by the government. For the most part, that is what we had before this ridiculous ObamaCare was foisted on us. (Hospitals increased rates that real payers had to suck up in their premiums, and that the government then ate in tax deductions.) At the time our health care was the envy of the world, and patients came here from around the world for the best care in the world.
There is one difference that is hugely important. Trump says that he wants everyone to have PRIVATE health care and other comments at other times says he wants that to be purchasable across state lines.
So, we get our old system back and we can buy from cheaper companies wherever we find them.
I don't think that's bad.
Totally agreed
He still supports it.
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