Posted on 04/15/2011 6:30:58 PM PDT by Right Wingnut 2
Donald Trump on Health Care:
We must have universal health care
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
Donald already said Obamacare should be repealed.
Good luck with that, when he’s on record arguing for single payer. Why is he getting a pass on this stuff? This is nuts!
Trump is a Dem in RINO clothes. He is in the race to split the Republican vote so as to re-elect Obama.
Agreed! I listended to part 1 of his interview with Hannity yesterday. based on some of his answers, it seems as though he’s preparing for an indie run. There’s NO WAY he can win the Republican Nomination. We’re about to get hosed BIG TIME unless we WAKE UP!
I heard Mark Levin’s rant tonight. Can’t say I disagree (except that I’m a birther, and thus don’t agree that the ineligibility issue is stupid).
I am sure I don’t support Trump for President.
But I applaud what he is doing right now—getting the ineligibility issue on the front burner.
Thus, if I am asked by any pollster who I support, I am going to say “Trump.” Which is what I suspect is what others are telling the pollsters.
If you don’t support him for President, why tell the pollster you do? His success in the polls makes it more likely that he will jump in.
The ONLY reason Trump would repeal obamacare is so that he could change the name to trumpcare, and then dump it on the American people like Obama did with obamacare.
In politics, I tend to ridicule anyone who has been pro-marxist or pro-ruling class.
So Trump would come out looking pretty bad in my conversation with a pollster.
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