Posted on 01/31/2016 10:18:08 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Lol.. In before the trumpeteers defending MrSingle Payor 2000!
He won't even do that. Trump isn't going to have the same kind of control over the Federal bureaucracy he has in his own enterprises. Under Trump, waste, fraud and abuse might go from the current 10% to 9.9%.
Might.
Geesh sounds like exactly what we have had for years in Medicaid. No one ever was denied care in my 40 years in nursing. But that wasn’t good enough for Obama. Now with Obamacare people are still on Medicaid and the middle class that previously could get healthcare pay more for less.
Writing words into the mouth of a candidate because you favor another candidate is intellectually dishonest at best.
If you want government to "take care of you," or if you want to be the elite father figure who "takes care of" the peasants, then you are not a Conservative.
Also, more and more we are going to the concept of “Just-In-Time” Employment instead of having steady jobs with companies for years, we do need to find a way to decouple medical insurance from employment.
Trump said he would work with the hospitals to take care of the indigent. That implies charities, churches, etc. Single payer is unthinkable.
40 million seniors have single payer along with 6 million vets.
Trump was Mr Single Payor 2000.. During his last run, it’s in his book. How many ways can he shout I am the only democrat who can win, before someone listens?
Sadly, you’re right. Beyond that it is shocking what misperceptions exist about health care provision.
Exactly, medical or Medicare. But the homeless and others won’t go in.
"I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare."
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 , Jul 2, 2000
Who should I believe when it comes to what Donald Trump said about universal health care? You or his own book? Hmmm.
Trump- "We'll work something out. That doesn't mean single payer."
Communism works! But only in Utopia.
I would agree.
I liken it to The Patriot Act, sure it’s fine if you trust the guy currently in office, but it also grants that power down the road to the next guy, who might not be to your liking. Once power is given to government, it is never given back.
I have to say, Trump is the only politician that I have seen to come out on two sides of several issues. I’ve even seen him do this in the same interview once.
More amazing than that, some of his supporters will come out and try to prove that Trump is right on both sides of a given issue!
It usually start with something like “What Trump really means is......”,
As if they’ve talked to him personally.
We deserve the government we elect.
So the Trumpster likes universal health care, eminent domain, the ethanol mandate, etc. - and he’s different from the old socialist fart how?
I see what you did there.....
Either Trump does not know that we don’t let people die in the street, or he wants the federal government to run our healthcare delivery system.
Neither is good for America.
It’s already there. It’s called Medicaid.
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