Posted on 12/29/2015 10:55:34 PM PST by TBP
ccording to the transcript of Donald Trump's interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, Mr. Trump favors a single payer health care plan in certain situations. During the interview, Pelley asked Mr. Trump what his plan was to replace Obamacare would look like. Mr. Trump responded, saying "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." When Pelley pressed Mr. Trump further about who would pay for this coverage, Mr. Trump said "the government’s gonna pay for it."
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The Cruz supporters have been doing it for far longer; including the now Cruz supporter who was originally for Walker.
Notice that you still won't bother to prove the premise:
That "everbody" will be covered "by the government." It nowhere says that. The article even explicitly disagrees with you, despite it being a trash piece by a commentator on the Examiner.
You are such a moron.
That’s how you think you build a massive business corporations from around the world seek you out to manage their operations, lying?
Quit embarrassing yourself.
Is that what you want...?
Bureaucrats..deciding your healthcare needs?
Thanks, D1, appreciate your reply.
My position is still the same: Trump supports single-payer, universal, everybody’s gotta be covered, government pays for uninsured.. and: private sector, we’re gonna be so rich...
He’s for both. Whatever sells. They are self-contradictory. I can post quote after quote for one side, you can post quotes for the other (yours will only be recent.)
Pick an issue, he’s been for it and against it. Today, he’s selling himself for votes in the GOP primary. That’s what you’re gonna hear.
I still don’t get why folks buy it. No offense, I really don’t.
Ummmm....yeah, good dodge.
Not at all.
However something has to cover the large block of Americans who were left out before.
That is a big, growing, and seriously expensive problem for Americans, who are increasingly losing the jobs which are supposed to provide them support.
Trump is saying that is a big, big problem. I completely agree, that is a big, big problem.
I do not think it is a big, big problem which requires just the government, but there is clearly a large role, because there is such a massive hole in who was being covered.
Massive.
Not interested.
A Clinton presidency, like the Obama presidency, would be rife with all sort of agendas that may not be necessarily optimal for the country. That is a fact.
A Trump presidency may have one or two issues that skew towards what Democrats would want (kind of like how Reagan had an illegal immigrant amnesty deal), but most of what he will put into place will not be what Hillary would put into place. That is also a fact.
It is from those two facts that I craft my opinion that someone like Trump will be significantly better than someone like Hillary, even if someone like Trump advocates one or two areas that dovetail with what someone like Hillary would advocate.
My point? I am Kenyan by birth, but let me try and co-opt an American saying and change it a bit and make it my own. If I have to eat a shit sandwich, I'd rather eat half a shit sandwich than a full shit sandwich! Obviously, it would be best not to eat any at all, but if I HAVE TO eat one then I'd rather have a half-portion, sir.
If Hillary wins, and per my own analysis (relatively in depth analysis) she is likely to win (and yes, I know according to FR she cannot win, and in fact may be arrested, but the same analysis that told me Obama would win tells me Hillary MAY probably win) ...anyway, I digress. If Hillary wins, what she will do will make anything Trump or Cruz would do seem like chump change. Guaranteed. Thus, beating Hillary is an imperative, and the vehicle to do that is unfortunately (since I support Cruz) is Trump. Normal attacks don't seem to work on him, and he's not afraid to dish out attacks in a manner that is more visceral than cerebral (visceral works on the electorate more than cerebral, something that people like John Kerry found out the hard way).
This is the most important election in a generation, and I am almost certain that the GOP will throw it away. As expected, since the GOP is not called the 'stupid party' for no reason. You get over 12 candidates taking each other through the meat grinder, the supporters of the main four end up seeing the others as enemies, there are relatively fewer attacks against the Democrat candidate as there are against the other Republican candidates, and then they face off against the most formidable Democrat candidate since JFK (unlike many on this forum, I see Hillary as truly formidable and not the weakling some think she is ...probably the same people who said Obama was an 'empty suit' that could be easily beaten by McCain and Palin, even though he was a veritable monster that came out of literally nowhere to win the most powerful seat in the world).
Beating Hillary is an imperative, but I fear for our chances.
It is a collective problem, because our government has restricted who can provide coverage, and regulates everything about healthcare in the entire nation.
I’m for removing government completely.
But until that happens, we need to make sure everyone is covered.
Every single American. If private insurance isn’t covering everyone (and private insurance wasn’t covering anyone, even you cannot deny that) then the government has to step into fill the gap.
They did.
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Let’s see what you believe:
1.) It’s a “collective” problem. Interesting choice of word there.
2.) You’re
a.) “for removing government completely”
but “until that happens...”
b.) “...we need to make sure everyone is covered....Every single American”
I guess the 2.b. “we” refers to the government?
Your thought processes on this are somewhat disjointed. I guess you ideally want to have the government totally uninvolved in healthcare but, until that ideal situation arrives, you’re ALL IN for STATISM IN HEALTHCARE.
Concealed carry in all 50 states is a democratic agenda??
Addressing corporate inversion is a democratic agenda??
A pause on importing people who hate us is a democratic agenda?
Adressing the 19 trillion debt is a democratic agenda??
Be serious.
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