Trump: Unlike Cruz, ‘I Have a Heart,’ I’ll Enact Universal Health Coverage

National Review ^ | January 31, 2016 12:20 PM | Tom S. Elliott

[Behind Liberal Lines]

In an interview this morning on This Week, Donald Trump cited his desire to "help people" as the reason he favors government-funded universal health coverage. Unlike Ted Cruz, Trump said, "I have a heart."

"If somebody has no money and they're lying in the middle of the street and they're dying, I'm going to take care of that person," Trump said.

[Disestablishmentarian]

>>”Deal Making” involves compromise . . .<<

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“Deal Making” involves WINNING, not making pointless demonstrations for effect, before going down in flames.

And yes, I cheered Cruz in his Don Quixote impression because, at the time, it was all we had. Now it is time to actually get someone in office that can kick butt.

[FredZarguna]

You may be under the mistaken impression that once this election campaign is over, all will be forgiven and forgotten. That may be true for some, but I can tell you right now it will not be forgiven and forgotten by me and I suspect I'm not the only one that feels this way.

So, are you saying that you won't support the nominee unless it's Trump? Because, speaking of "[posters that end up getting] kicked off this site," I believe Jim Robinson has already stated that anyone who takes that position is getting a ZOT.

Would you like to clarify your position so we can decide whether or not to ping him?

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me .. you’re not my MOTHER .. so don’t be telling me if I can or cannot use CAPS.

Unbelievable nonsense .. that’s all you ever say.

[editor-surveyor]

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Trump has praised single payer constantly, but the swooners here will never accept it.

What is the difference between Trump, Hillary, and Bernie?

Trump may have more money, but we don’t even know that for sure, since nothing he has is liquid, and would have to be put on the market to know.
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[editor-surveyor]

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How did he make it clear that his single payer is not single payer?
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[Republican Wildcat]

This is par for the course with Trump - and look at the lemmings on here arguing his words are being twisted somehow.

Trump literally attacked conservatives and what we stand for over this issue at a campaign rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRQgAEqLUmQ&index=2&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

He also reiterated his stance on “universal healthcare” on 60 minutes and acknowledged his views were “unRepublican”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr5l-47lYZM&index=22&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

[editor-surveyor]

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National Review peeling the rotten onion again...
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[Republican Wildcat]

“It’s a campaign. State the obvious, and frame it as an attack on your opponent. There is no mystery here.”

Well apparently Trump’s opponents are therefore conservatives and Republicans:

Trump literally attacked conservatives and what we stand for over this issue at a campaign rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRQgAEqLUmQ&index=2&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

He also reiterated his stance on “universal healthcare” on 60 minutes and acknowledged his views were “unRepublican”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr5l-47lYZM&index=22&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

[Heart of Georgia]

I’m for Cruz in the primary, and Trump would get my vote in the general if he’s our candidate.

I like what he said at first and trusted him on his stance on illegal aliens...Mexico will pay for the wall he will build..trusted he knows how to make it happen...then he goes and says there’ll be a door in the wall and the good ones can come back. I didn’t like that, but I ignored it as being something he had to say..politics being what it is.

I trusted him that he wanted to fight the establishment. Then he came out and he says we’ll need to be a little bit GOPe...didn’t say how much GOPe we need to be, only that he can get along with pelosi...

Now he says he will enact universal health coverage, and I find myself wondering....where does destroying zerocare come in? And if he says these things now...which are red flags to me... what will he compromise on when he has no competition other than Biden, or Sanders, or HER? I’m sick of the EO’s and the pen-and-phone garbage, with all the usual suspects in the background laughing at us.

I thought we would finally get rid of the uni-party in 2016. Not likely, because instead of holding feet to the fire... Well we’re just not for whatever reason.

[Pearls Before Swine]

So far, most politicians have been acting like there is unlimited resources for medical care. Of course there isn’t—the question is rather, how it will be rationed.

Obama wants to put the makers on the rack to give to the takers, and so does Sanders. Of course, under their schemes, the care is rationed, except that the middle class pays a lot more than it used to, and the link between payment and the amount of care is severed. It becomes a matter of who you know, or what special interest group (or political affiliation) you are attached to. Under both of their systems, the apparatchiks will get good care.

A rational thing to do would be to have a two-tiered system, where there are acknowledged limited public resources, and more elaborate (more prompt, closer) service for those who actually pay.

To a limited extent, we have that—if you’re wealthy as all get out, you can go to the Mayo Clinic whenever you want; on the other end, if you’re in Medicaid (as a friend in the insurance business told me) you get plenty of care, but mediocre care (there’s a lot of OJT going on). It’s the responsible people in the middle trying to insure their savings that get drained and screwed.

[1rudeboy]

Whoa, back off, cowboy. I am a Cruz supporter, and I will vote for Trump if he gets the nod. Because I think the greatest threat to the Republic is the Democrat nominee.

Funny, that by current FR standards, that makes me GOPe.

[FredZarguna]

Another "winner" obsessed loser:

[Republican Wildcat]

Your comments are a lot like those who defended Obamacare during that debate over whether or not it should be passed.

But the reality is the following:

Trump literally attacked conservatives and what we stand for over this issue at a campaign rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRQgAEqLUmQ&index=2&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

He also reiterated his stance on ‘universal healthcare’ on 60 minutes and acknowledged his views were “unRepublican”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr5l-47lYZM&index=22&list=PLJcbhHQDR9da0H3-Qs-7WEEj6tam9vlh3

[editor-surveyor]

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Trump is absolutely not talking about emergency care.

He has repeatedly stated that he wants a plan like Canada or Scotland. (totally government run medicine)

[FredZarguna]

How did he make it clear that his single payer is not single payer?

Because Trump.

Because winning.

[editor-surveyor]

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Trump is talking about taking all choice away, except for Billionaires.

[duffee]

““Deal Making” involves WINNING, not making pointless demonstrations for effect, before going down in flames.”

Absolutely “Deal Making” is about winning and The Donald will deal make and compromise and declare a winner. The problem is I believe the winner will be his old friends he endorses and contributes to and his new GOP-e friends. The losers will be Conservatives, and I believe our Constitution will be ignored. I don’t want Donald the “Deal Maker” negotiating for me, he has given me no reason to trust him.

[editor-surveyor]

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We wondered how anyone could possibly bring the presidency lower than Obama has; now we know for sure.
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[editor-surveyor]

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This will be known as the era of “Because.”
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[nascarnation]

Thanks. I’ve heard about doctors avoiding the medicare biz and wondered how the economics work out.

Around here (Indiana) the population is biased toward old people so it might not be easy to do that, but in some sunbelt cities probably pretty easy.