Donald Trump Endorses Universal Healthcare, "The Government's Gonna Pay For It"
I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.
Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes. There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 , Jul 2, 2000
See my post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3391041/posts?page=364#364
And how does all that not mean, if not technically "Single Payer" something akin to greatly expanding Medicare and or Medicaid or emulating the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and isn't that what the liberals have also clamored for? And won't you and I pay for it via increased taxation? No Trump says he will pay for it out of the "Yuge Savings" he'll get somewhere else. Big on promises but light on details.
Wow.
Taking positions he wrote 15 years ago, before Obamacare, and claiming that as his position today.
Plus, he explicitly claims that his system will be based in private enterprise, which you then characterize as leading to single payer.
His words can as easily be shown to be biased toward free market health care.
Yes, Trump is big on promises and light on details here. Ted Cruz is also big on promises and light on details.
Show us an example, in the current crop of candidates, who isn’t.
It is a necessity of the place we find ourselves in.
Remember that the system in place *before* Obamacare had lots of government interference in it, and is not free market.
>> No Trump says he will pay for it out of the “Yuge Savings” he’ll get somewhere else <<
If that doesn’t work, maybe he’ll make Mexico pick up the tab?