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Donald Trump Just Publicly Embraced the WORST Part of Obamacare [VIDEO] [Ind. Mandate]
PoliStick ^ | February 19, 2016 | Matthew K. Burke

Posted on 02/19/2016 12:18:37 PM PST by SoConPubbie

Donald Trump: “I like the mandate.”

Donald Trump has often promised to repeal the “disaster” that is Obamacare and he’s right, it is a disaster.

But at Thursday night’s CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall in South Carolina, Donald Trump embraced what is easily the worst part of Obamacare, the anti-free market “individual mandate” which forces Americans to buy only government-approved health care insurance, whether they want to or not.

To justify his support for the Obamacare mandate, Donald Trump uses leftist talking points of not wanting people to “die in the streets,” as if they has ever happened in America — before or after Obamacare.

Here’s how Donald Trump answered CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night (emphasis added):

DONALD TRUMP:Well, I like the mandate. OK. So here’s where I’m a little bit different. I don’t want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time. And I say this – look, I did five speeches, maybe six speeches today. We had a lot of rallies. We had of thousands and thousands of people. I mean, we get big crowds.

Allow me to break down the “logic” of this:

  1. Trump promises to get rid of Obamacare.
  2. Americans are, or have been “dying in the streets.”
  3. He wants to KEEP the worst part of Obamacare — the “mandate.”
  4. Don’t worry, folks, because he gets big crowds and standing ovations, just like Obama did with his worshipers in 2008, and that makes everything just swell.

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1 posted on 02/19/2016 12:18:37 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

    CRUZ or LOSE!
2 posted on 02/19/2016 12:18:51 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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3 posted on 02/19/2016 12:21:22 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: SoConPubbie

Dont want to see people dying in the streets? So all IsIs has to do is blackmail it!


4 posted on 02/19/2016 12:22:19 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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5 posted on 02/19/2016 12:22:21 PM PST by kik5150 (Cruz argued 9 times before Supreme Court judges. Trump argues with beauty pageant judges.)
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To: SoConPubbie

LOL. Just a few hours to go before the Donald wins SC. My family and I just can’t wait to vote for him tomorrow.


6 posted on 02/19/2016 12:22:26 PM PST by kabar
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump has been losing support in SC this week so hopefully this will continue to help people to wake up to the fact that Trump is not the man they have been hoping he is.


7 posted on 02/19/2016 12:22:39 PM PST by dschapin
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To: SoConPubbie

We need a pic of someone with their fingers in their ears or an ostrich with head in the ground; that is what the Trumpers will do and ignore or pretend he didn’t say this.


8 posted on 02/19/2016 12:23:34 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Build the freakin' wall and hold against commie SCOTUS nominees.)
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s all OK, after all, he’s “a little bit different”...


9 posted on 02/19/2016 12:23:56 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: SoConPubbie

That’s not what he meant by “mandate”. He went on to explain that he is in favor of providers being mandated to provide care regardless of ability to pay.

But here’s something you can help spread around:

Trump just called for a boycott of Apple until they assist the FBI in unlocking the terrorists phone.


10 posted on 02/19/2016 12:25:21 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: SoConPubbie
No matter how “Holy” you think your cause, the 9th Commandment is still in effect.

TRANSCRIPT

COOPER: If Obamacare is repealed and there’s no mandate for everybody to have insurance what’s to… and why would insurance company not have a pre-existing insure somebody…

TRUMP: I like tne mandate. Okay, so here’s how I’m a little bit different. I don’t want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time. And I say this… Look I did five speeches maybe six speeches today we had a lot of rallies with thousands and thousands of people. I mean we get big crowds. Everytime I talk about this I get standing ovations. The Republican people, they’re wonderful people, they don’t want people dying on the streets. Sometimes they say, “Donald Trump wants single-payer.” Because there is a group of people, as good as these plans are, and by the way your insurance will go way down you’ll have better players, you’ll get your own doctor

COOPER: Which…

TRUMP: Obama lied. Remember this…

COOPER: A person with a pre-existing condition should be able to get insurance?

TRUMP: Yes. Obama lied when he said you’re gonna keep your plan, you get to keep your doctor. I was a pure lie. Frankly many democrats went along only because they believed him. He lied twenty-eight times. Twenty-eight times he said it. Twenty-eight times. If that were in the private sector you be sued for fraud. Okay? He lied to get the plan through. He got it through and it’s turned out to be a disaster. The wrong people are buying it. You know what’s happening. It’s dead. It’s gonna… Look, ObamaCare is dead. It’s gonna be repealed, gonna be replaced. But I will say this, Anderson, if we don’t do something quickly you can have a health care problem that you… like you’ve never seen before in this country. Now the new plan is good, it’s going to be inexpensive, it’s going to be much better for the people. But there’s gonna be a group of people at the bottom people that haven’t done well, people that don’t have any money that won’t be able to be taken care of. We’re gonna take care of them through maybe concepts of medicare. We have hospitals that aren’t doing well. We have doctors aren’t doing well. You cannot let people die on the street, okay? Now some people would say “that’s not a very Republican thing to say.” Every time I say this at a rally, or even today I said it, once again a standing ovation, I said, you know, the problem is everybody thinks that you people as Republicans hate the concept of taking care of people that are really, really sick and are gonna die. And that’s not single-payer, by the way, that’s called “heart.” We’ve gotta take care of people that can’t take care of themselves. But the plans will be much less expensive than Obamacare, they’ll be far better than Obamacare, you’ll get your doctor you get everything you want to get, it’ll be unbelievable. [Italics are mine, read this a couple of times.] But you’ve got to get rid of the lines. You’ve got to have competition. those people that are left, we gotta help them live and everybody likes it when I say it, and that includes Republicans and it’s not single-payer.

11 posted on 02/19/2016 12:25:31 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: SoConPubbie

If Trump doesn’t win, who will stop the illegal alien invasion?

Elect Trump now, fix the rest IF the country survives (which it cannot due to our embrace of gay marriage).

Trump is the emergency triage answer.


12 posted on 02/19/2016 12:25:34 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: kabar

Have you watched the video of what Trump said in the townhall last night. He clearly endorsed the Obamacare mandate. Please watch the video of Trump because he clearly said this last night. Here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fIDi2wlgZN4


13 posted on 02/19/2016 12:25:43 PM PST by dschapin
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To: kik5150

I just want a candidate who actually wants people dying in the streets.


14 posted on 02/19/2016 12:25:45 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: SoConPubbie

That mandate made it to the Court House steps for the laying in repose of Scalia in the form of broccoli...along with fortune cookies, paper bags, and applesauce.


15 posted on 02/19/2016 12:28:39 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: MNJohnnie

Your transcript proves what we all are saying. Trump clearly said he liked the mandate which Cooper had just defined as the “mandate for everybody to have insurance.” This is the part of Obamacare where the government tells everyone that they must purchase insurance. Do you support this now that Trump does?


16 posted on 02/19/2016 12:28:39 PM PST by dschapin
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To: dschapin

It’s not the mandate that you buy insurance or get fined. Not the same.


17 posted on 02/19/2016 12:29:09 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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But the plans will be much less expensive than Obamacare, they'll be far better than Obamacare, you'll get your doctor you get everything you want to get, it'll be unbelievable.

Talk about YUGE promises!

18 posted on 02/19/2016 12:29:19 PM PST by zedee
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To: dschapin

Not the same context of mandate. Got anything else.


19 posted on 02/19/2016 12:29:53 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: kik5150

Shameless attempt to take something out of context.

COOPER: Repealed and there’s no mandate for everybody to have insurance, what’s to - why would insurance company (sic) not have a pre-existing - insure somebody who has a pre-existing condition ...


20 posted on 02/19/2016 12:30:07 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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