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Trump Stands By Past Support For Universal Health Care
BuzzFeed ^ | 07/18/2015 | Andrew Kaczynski, Ilan Ben-Meir

Posted on 07/18/2015 6:25:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is standing by his past support for universal health care.

“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,” The Donald told radio host John Fredericks in an interview Wednesday. “We gotta do that.”

Trump said in 1999 — when he was flirting with a presidential rub on the Reform Party ticket — that the U.S. should make health care an entitlement and that coverage should be universal.

“I would put forward a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes,” Trump said at the time.

Trump said as president he was going to get people good plans that would have low costs.

“You know, I’m a very conservative guy, I’m Republican, I’m — number one, the people that can do it, we’re gonna get them plans that are so good, and we’re gonna break the borders, we’re gonna go, you know, the private plans,” he stated.

“You know, 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. We’re gonna get great plans, we’re not gonna have huge costs.

The biggest thing the government has to do is make sure these companies are very, very solvent, you know, that they’re very strong. Because what you don’t want is having a company collapse, right? So that’s the only function of the government. ”

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To: stockpirate

“No matter who it was it is still a socialist rant. We must decide socialism or not. There can be no middle ground.”

Sorry, I should have expanded, I believe it was made by candidate Ronald Reagan. How did that work out?


41 posted on 07/18/2015 8:33:02 AM PDT by skippyjonjones
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To: Amagi

As astute as The Donald may be about many other aspects of the entrepreneurial agenda, his understanding of “health care” is not among them.

Health care is, first and most importantly, the duty and responsibility of the INDIVIDUAL, and “universal” government-dictated and applied methods of health services delivery cannot possibly provide this individual aspect.

First, it is not economically feasible, because the demand for ANYTHING, if it is perceived to be “free” or at relatively little cost, will explode at exponential rates, making the delivery of those goods or services necessarily subject to rationing. And when the need for rationing cannot be fully understood and shared by all, it soon breaks down into anarchy, the “gimmedats” jumping to the head of the crowd, and forcing those truly and genuinely in need to the back of the line, which, once they work their way up to the head, find there is nothing to be distributed. This is worse than no care at all, as there was the expectation of delivery, which never came.

Health care is an expensive, and as it turns out, a somewhat rare commodity, making it, in turn, a very valuable commodity. Rationing its distribution by price is then the method of allocation, those that can pay will choose the care they deem necessary to their personal well being, and others less able to pay, make an economic decision. And sometimes the decision is NOT to seek “preferred” health services, but to turn to alternative and less expensive treatments, or dispense with any treatment at all. After all, most things get better in the morning, do they not?

Education of the individual on the care and upkeep of their own personal circle (themselves and their immediate family) is an abiding need in every school curriculum in the whole WORLD, not just in any particular locality. The instruction manuals are out there, they only have to be made available to the individual user, with guidance on how to read and apply the information. These instructions go back to the very first books in the Old Testament, and have been reiterated and updated over the centuries.

For The Donald, “universal” health care, may seem to be only a service that could be hired, but for the most of us, it is a matter of engaging in providing a very large part of our own efforts to secure a state of good health.


42 posted on 07/18/2015 8:33:06 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The question is how to do it. He said using the market, though I see needing Medical for people with prior conditions or broke folks.

If it were me I would charge prior condition folks a percentage of the income to get on and we should let people buy what they want.
Do lawyer and tort reform and costs will go down.


43 posted on 07/18/2015 8:37:04 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Kenny

If you recall, big insurance companies weren’t out fighting against obamacare. They’ve been paid off by eliminating competition. You never heard the big ones advocating competition across state lines. They didn’t want that.

Obama and his thugs got to the top level management of the big insurance companies. They bought them off.

After the most recent supreme court ruling in favor of obamacare, the key insurance stocks made major gains. They won. We lost.

I don’t see obamacare being thrown out. The republicans aren’t going to do it. They don’t want to go there. It’s all cheap talk. I believe the best we can hope for is to elect someone that would amend it to death.


44 posted on 07/18/2015 8:43:43 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Amagi

But, but, but...

The Trump people will go nuts and say you are a Liberal if you report this...

I love being right about other candidates...


45 posted on 07/18/2015 8:47:23 AM PDT by TNMOUTH
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To: SeekAndFind
Much as I hate the thought of "universal health care", if anyone could make it work w/o the pain and government death panels, it would be someone like Trump.

We are probably stuck with some form of it and I'd like to hear more about his take on making it workable - has to be head and shoulders above anything the corrupt "representatives" in D.C. could envision/implement.

46 posted on 07/18/2015 9:11:03 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 4rcane

Except that he is for SINGLE payer...


47 posted on 07/18/2015 9:18:08 AM PDT by TNMOUTH
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To: silverleaf

I agree. If anybody can figure out how to make healthcare affordable its Trump. He is going to go at it a lot better than these politicians.


48 posted on 07/18/2015 9:34:24 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is what many of us here have been trying to warn "Conservative" FReepers who pick Trump as their first choice that he is not a Conservative.

Now you will see that they will try to justify Trump's "Universal Healthcare."

I would like to say this again. Donald Trump is not a Conservative. He doesn't even know what being a Conservative means. Listen to him saying it himself at the 53:00 mark. He was talking about repealing and replacing Obamacare and he added this:

Full Speech: Donald Trump Brings Down The House In Phoenix, AZ (7-11-15)

“I know this doesn't sound very Conservative. We gotta take care of everybody, not just the people up here. We gotta take care of everybody. Okay! Get used to it, Conservatives. I love you, Conservatives. Get used to it. Let's take care of everybody, please. And by the way Obamacare doesn't!”

49 posted on 07/18/2015 9:47:48 AM PDT by Isara
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To: SeekAndFind

And you forget number 3:

1) He is fearlessness in giving the proverbial finger to the GOPe crowd.


50 posted on 07/18/2015 10:08:24 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Logical me
So what is your plan.

My plan would be to tell the public the truth. There ain't no free lunch, and universal health care will either (a) cut quality off at the kneecaps, or (b) cost, and cost big.

I sure won't promise unicorns and pots of gold that I can't deliver.

51 posted on 07/18/2015 10:14:41 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: Paulie
Let’s see the plan and the reasoning behind it.

All of combover boy's "plans" so far seem to consist of - "Hey. I'm a real smart guy. And I'm tough too. That's why I'm worth billions. So I'm just gonna fix it, OK? That's all ya need to know."

52 posted on 07/18/2015 10:29:49 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There is no talking to the “I paid in, where’s my lock box” SS and Medicare crowd. Apparently there’s a standard procedure for that first Medicare office visit that involved deadening the math circuits of the brain.


53 posted on 07/18/2015 10:33:33 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
How many of us have said for years/decades we are tired of the professional politicians that never held a job, lived in the political bubble and reading pollster questions, and meekly spewing PC-correct, group-tested, non-offensive, murky, deflections dictating how we WILL live our lives because the government knows best, all the while preening their perfectly coiffed hair, rolling up their sleeves and using their thumb instead of their finger.

Trump is refreshing because is is exactly the opposite of the political class, the establishment power-brokers and MSM enablers. . .he is fighting back and injecting passion and energy.

54 posted on 07/18/2015 12:26:05 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Hulka
I don't want someone who is "fighting back" and showing "passion and energy" for the wrong things.
55 posted on 07/18/2015 1:29:16 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Because we were much better off before medical insurance.

Now, with it, the cost to the public has skyrocketed, hospitals are going out of business, and doctors are making less money.

In other words, the only one’s prospering are the insurance companies and at the expense of the rest of us.


56 posted on 07/18/2015 1:43:59 PM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic

And the lawyers are prospering by the exhorbitant malpractice awards being given by sympathetic juries. A long time ago, malpractice meant the doctor had intentionally done something egregious or was incomptent. Now, if ANYTHING AT ALL GOES WRONG IN ANY MEDICAL PROCEDURE, the vulture lawyers are at the ready to bleed the doctors dry. Tort reform would throw out the frivilous lawsuits and the cost of malpractice insurance would have to be reduced to the doctors.


57 posted on 07/18/2015 2:17:56 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Amagi

Yup!


58 posted on 07/18/2015 2:18:48 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: sakic

The problem is the low deductible/HMO-type expectation that insurance pays for everything. We’ve had some form of health insurance for 165 years.

Without it, there would have been limited ability to fund and develop many life saving and extending healthcare innovations.


59 posted on 07/18/2015 2:36:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

That doesn’t account for why hospitals are going out of business.


60 posted on 07/18/2015 6:09:13 PM PDT by sakic
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