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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Right—Obamacare accounts for that. Competition is being taken out of the market.
This is by far and away a much greater sin than his righteous challenge to McCain’s lack of any remedial action for veterans, MIA’s and the things they need to have looked after!!!
Sorry, I should have expanded, I believe it was made by candidate Ronald Reagan. How did that work out?
I figured it was him, but the truth is the truth, if it is socialist it is socialist, really doesn’t matter who said it.
He still supports it.
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