In 2011 he said the following in his book:
"Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Congress had to pass Obamacare so we could find out what's in it. Now we have. And what's inside those 2,733 pages is a job-killing, health care-destroying monstrosity. It can't be reformed, salvaged, or fixed. It's that bad. Obamacare has to be killed now before it grows into an even bigger mess, as it inevitably will."
"One way to infuse more competition into the market is to let citizens purchase health-care plans across state lines. Why not allow people to buy health insurance across state lines and make companies compete the best plans at the best rates?"
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again (p. 131). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
He also has a chapter on tort reform with loser pay that I did not include in these snips.
Yes, I am aware that he wrote that. I am also aware of his 60 Minutes interview on Sept 27, 2015:
Donald Trump: Obamacare’s going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at what’s going on with premiums where they’re up 40, 50, 55 percent.
Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?
Donald Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, “No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private. But–â€
Scott Pelley: Universal health care.
Donald Trump: 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.
Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
Donald Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably–
Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Donald Trump: –the government’s gonna pay for it.
This is one of hundreds of times Trump has discussed big government healthcare solutions, including nationalized healthcare when he thought Obamacare didn’t go far enough. The fact that he writes one thing and says something different (recently, I might add) again calls into question his judgement. So which is it? What he wrote in his book or what he recently said in a sit down interview on 60 Minutes? Was it what he said before he wrote that particular book? There were no gotcha questions in the interview. No straight answers without being prodded, either.
He was for before he was against it before he was before it. Where have I heard that before?
Donald Trump is an American and a patriot. I don’t, however, like his chameleon political positions nor do I like his advocacy of liberal positions on many other topics.