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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Yes, you provided one quote that didn't say what you claimed, and are now posting the "entire transcript" because you can't quote something that proves your assertions. IOW, now you want me to do your work.
sorry to burst your Trump bubble but he has supported Single Payer and thinks its works great in other countries(he said that during one of the debates).
I see you want to focus on what Trump is saying now. That isn’t the issue
Period.
No. I mean exactly what I said.
There is a portion of the American public who need coverage.
That is what I am saying. That is all I am saying. That is exactly what I am saying.
Cover every single person. How I do not care.
Not one bit.
Jane, you ignorant slut...
Frankly, he’s certainly no bigger liar than you are.
There is a portion of the American public who need coverage.
That is what I am saying. That is all I am saying. That is exactly what I am saying.
Cover every single person. How I do not care.
Not one bit.
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Good, than you won’t care that I nominate YOU to pay for those folk’s coverage. That way, they can buy new cars maybe.
Jane, you ignorant slut...
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I’m not ignorant. :^)
The quote said exactly what it said.
I really don’t understand how you’re rebutting this. “The quote didn’t say what you claimed...”
It said what it said. My question to you was to interpret it in some way that was ‘un-Republican’ and wasn’t an expansion of Medicare.
I don’t see where you did that.
I remember the townhall I attended when the whole discussion started. It was supposed to be health care reform NOT health insurance reform. I know that because the question: “how much of each HC dollar goes to litigation” was asked and answered. Somehow it morphed into health insurance reform. The ligitation cost issue was left in the dust of the rising debt.
I COULD be wrong. But that’s my best judgment.
Then you simply refuse to look at the facts.
Did we have single payer before Obamacare. No.
Trump is returning to that environment, with a more diverse access to insurance companies.
This is a private sector replacement of Obamacare.
Gosh folks, reality is reality.
LOL
Good one...
No. I get a fair number of threads recommended to me, and most are worthless.
Right now medical care in America is the most expensive in the entire globe.
Anywhere.
We need to break up the monopoly which controls medical care, in my mind. But as long as the government is telling us how we can receive medical care, who can provide coverage, what coverages are required, all the huge amount of regulations the government forces upon Americans, they have a moral duty to make sure everyone is covered.
I’m actually more of the opinion the government needs to completely get out of setting any standards for medical care.
But I don’t see the slighted chance, that is will. Since they’re involved in everything about American healthcare, then they also should be involved in bringing down the (ridiculous) cost of medical care in the USA.
For everyone.
I’m really listening:
>>”This is a private sector replacement of Obamacare.”
How do you square this interpretation with “everybody has to be insured” and the “government pays for the uninsured”?
What if I choose not to buy insurance?
I have never seen such a perpetually stupid bunch of Freepers in my life. In less tha a month I’ll have been here for eighteen years, and I have NEVER seen it anywhere close to this bad.
Once more, let’s lead the children around this process again. Then next week we’ll have to do it again, because the disinformation folks will make it necessary.
These are the main four types of care.
Obamacare
Medicare
Medicaid
Indigent care
OBAMACARE
Trump is going to do away with Obamacare. He will work with Congress and the states to lower state boundaries so insurance companies can compete in all 50 states, or as many as they want. Today states limit insurance companies to operate in one or a few states. This stifles competition and the types of policies available.
Under this plan states that have five or ten companies competing today will instead have 50 or 100 competing. This will drive down policy costs and increase the diversification of policies.
This is a clear move (altogether now) AWAY FROM SINGLE PAYER!
Under Obamacare exchanges are closing, insurance companies are dropping out, and employers are stopping offering coverage. That all moves us closer to single payer. Trump’s plan does the exact opposite.
That covers Obamacare. That’s it in a nutshell, what we now have and what Trump proposes.
MEDICARE
Medicare DOES NOT CHANGE.
MEDICAID
Medicaid DOES NOT CHANGE.
INDIGENT CARE
Now we come to the part folks are trying to label “single-payer†so incredibly stupid ilinformed people can be misled.
LISTEN UP FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME.
Indigents get their care paid for by the government and have for at least 40 years. Did anyone miss that? Those who cannot pay for their care have been covered by the government since at least the 1970s.
These people show up at the E.R. and every hospital that gets Medicare funds, is required by law to provide service to them. If the hospital refuses service, the federal government will nullify their ability to get Medicare funds for their elderly patients. Hardly any hospitals have done this. I have only heard of one or at most a few who have.
Once these people receive care in the E. R., they are evaluated. They can get on a Medicaid program if the have no money or assets. If they have money or assets, they have to pay. Another words they are means tested.
This still takes place under Obamacare. It will still take place under Trump.
This IS NOT what we think of as general working class access to healthcare, so this IS NOT a move to single payer. The indigent care has always been single payer, paid for by the government. Trump has stated he wants to get stakeholders together to see if there is a way to reduce the costs of indigent care provision. That is also the opposite of what the Left did setting up Obamacare. They actually avoided including some stakeholders in the process of developing Obamacare.
Working class access was not headed to single payer until Obamacare, and then it moved in that direction because the Left wanted that.
Trump is not pushing for single payer. If someone tells you he is, that person is either one of the dumbest people in our nation, or a flat out liar.
Great post. The people pushing single payer line are liars. On a similar note, the Mark Levin Show was awful tonight. It was all on eminant domain and how Trump was going to steal your house. I hope Mark Levin and his guest host are proud of themselves.
He is not pushing single payer.
If he was, he wouldn’t be pushing to lower state lines so insurance companies could compete.
Tell me why he’s pushing to lower state lines?
If he was going single payer there would be no private insurance.
Is it your understanding he’s doing away with insurance companies?
Maybe your judgment could be better with more information and logic but you told D1 “not interested”.
That’s a problem. Judgments and conclusions are never as good as they could be when factual and current information is deliberately left off the table.
Deathcare made things FAR WORSE. Only a communist would say otherwise.
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