Posted on 07/17/2015 8:24:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Businessman Donald Trump on Thursday said the country has to provide health care for the poor and that he’s “actually a conservative with a heart” who can work out deals with hospitals to make it happen.
“I want people taken care of in the country, okay? You can call it anything you want, but I want — including people that don’t have anything,” Mr. Trump said on “The John Fredericks Show.” about “We gotta do that.”
Mr. Fredericks, a Virginia-based radio host who has predicted that Mr. Trump will win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, had asked Mr. Trump how to reconcile his statements critical of President Obama’s health care law with past statements in which Mr. Trump was warm to the notion of universal health care coverage.
“You know, I’m a very conservative guy … number one, the people that can do it, we’re going to get them plans that are so good and we’re going to break the borders, we’re going to go [to] the private plans,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of people had plans they loved before Obamacare came along. You probably did. I have friends that had really good plans — now they have horrible plans and they’re paying five times more for [them].
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To defend Trump's actions on immigration is one thing. I am happy we are having that debate. But to want him as the Republican nominee is just insanity.
The problem with this plan is that it requires laws and regulations to set up. And that's statism.
Look at the people that want him. Almost exclusively former AND current Romney/Perrybots. Same voices screaming the loudest.
They want a liberal NO MATTER WHAT.
History is what it is.
In other words by telling private industry what they can charge and how much they can make? True conservative values. <sarcasm>
Look, you and he are going to have to be conservative for more than 15 minutes for me to take either of you very seriously. And actually, he didn't say EVERYTHING incorrect, but he did say something very key incorrect. If you can't figure it out, then you have put on the blinders by choice. Now I'll vote for Trump if he gets the nomination, early and often, but I will not be fooled into thinking this man is a true and instinctive conservative, because for 67 or his 69 years, he hasn't been. Apparently, you are more easily duped.
Having a Ted Cruz or a business guy who knows how to get things done isn’t bad at all.
The most expensive and least efficient way of getting care to them.
Cruz is a milquetoast speaker. He's not inspiring, he doesn't sound confident and he looks disheveled
If and when Cruz ever shows up on a national stage more than once, other than FAUX he'll be finished.
In a word, he's boring to watch and listen to.
What hard hitting news have we heard lately? He cried to the NYT about his book listing and won...WTF cares?
Oh, and that's not "free". Someone pays for it, be it the hospital or the state or the county or the federal government. It comes out of someone's pocket.
Those who think otherwise are statists and socialists. These statists and socialists want to turn America into a rotten and miserable place. I say we can't allow them to do that. For the sake of freedom, the penniless should be left to rot in the streets. It's the only rational choice.
He's been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
Some much pure bullshit in one post. It has to be a record.
Thanks for the quote. I agree with your post.
“Trump wrote in his in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve, that “we need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.””
And I will add..
If the states are doing a single payer then let them do it at the states level. Each state can do as they determine best for their own citizens.
Trump does not understand it is constitutionally illegal for federal government to impose healthcare, regardless of what the supreme court says. It is not in the constitution. Pass an amendment if it needs to be in the constitution.
The other really bad precedent about making federal healthcare without an amendment is it paves the way for universal world wide single payer through the UN. Change his quote to this “Trump wrote in his in his 2000 book, The “WORLD” We Deserve, that “we need, as a WORLD, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual COUNTRIES are doing.”
But now he is trying to be all three at once.
Workfare, because it is currently more profitable to be on the dole than a nonprofessional laborer. They need to increase conditions of benefits and to reduce the benefits so the lazy can move on.
Also there needs to be non-lawsuit laws so ex convicts can get hired and an employer can't somehow have liability for it.
Bernie Sanders is for single payer socialized healthcare.
That is how liberal Trump is on the issue.
No other Republican candidate comes close to matching Trump's liberal position on the issue. None.
Anyone who honestly thinks Trump is going to survive the debates should take that question, then take that rambling, disjointed, all-over-the-board answer, and imagine Trump trying to distill that down to 30 secords or however long he will have to respond.
“...he didn’t say everything incorrect.”
Well rooty frickin tooty.
“...you and he are going to have to be conservative for more than 15 minutes for me to take either of you very seriously.”
I don’t care if you take me seriously and I don’t recall saying he was conservative. At this point I don’t give a damn. Show me the Conservative in the Republican race polling over 10%. Show me the Conservative in the race that can beat Bush. Show me the Conservative in the race pure as the driven snow.
And FYI I like Cruz but he doesn’t have it in him this cycle and if you think so you might as well get out Rove’s white board.
I bet after Obamacare he is not so desireous of any single payer plan.
People change, even Ronald R was once a union rep.
Yep, and guess what, people (and illegals)are still using them even with Obamacare. Imagine that.
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