Posted on 02/19/2016 8:42:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
He has broken with many Republicans on taxing the rich, threatening trade wars and keeping Planned Parenthood alive. On Friday, Donald J. Trump faced criticism for an even bolder act of conservative heresy: embracing the core tenet of the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Trump has to date offered only bits and pieces of his health agenda, generally presenting a vow to repeal "Obamacare" and replace it with "something great."
In a town-hall meeting hosted by CNN on Thursday night, he shared some more expansive views on the subject, and unlike most Republicans he did not call for removing the individual mandate that requires Americans to have health insurance.
Asked how people with pre-existing medical conditions would purchase insurance if the health law and the mandate were eliminated, Mr. Trump said, "I like the mandate."
"So here's where I'm a little bit different," he continued. "I don't want people dying on the streets."
Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Trump backed away from his remarks, proclaiming himself to be the fiercest opponent of the health law. It was the latest example of a candidate who has been impervious to inconsistencies again emerging unscathed from a misstep that would probably be damaging to anyone else....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One of many things that he’s said that are just simply NOT conservative.
He’s a phony and a crazy person. Like the Pope, every time he opens his mouth, I cringe.
Trump has already said that by “mandate” he meant that insurance companies couldn’t deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
Not to worry. The New York Times will straighten him out if he strays too far from the path of righteousness.
Trump needs to die on the vine, unless he can run as the ‘Rat Candidate.
The New York Times writes a stupid contradictory sentence. As usual.
Right..........
Getting harder and harder to make America see that sow’s ear as a silk purse.
DONEald.
The Times knows that the border is the only issue that matters. So do Trump’s supporters. Lose it (even more) and EVERYTHING else is lost. They want it lost. I do not care at all about any other position Trump takes. He might actually do it; none of the others will. Control the border, or the rest is gone anyway, to the extent it isn’t already. Edmund Burke doesn’t sell well south of the border.
This isn’t news. Trump has always been to the left of Hillary and Sanders on healthcare.
He didn’t shock anyone who knew what he meant when he used the term “mandate”, in the context of hospitals being mandated to care for people regardless of ability to pay. Trump has said he will repeal Obamacare and replace it with a new healthcare program that allows selling across state lines, negotiating “favored nation” prices for drugs, reducing premium costs, and more. He spends 15 minutes in each rally talking about this topic, including quotes from his doctor friend who now has more accountants working for him under Obamacare than nurses.
Nice talking point, but how are the insurance companies going to pay for their "pre existing condition" MANDATE without the INDIVIDUAL MANDATE?
Tax subsidies to the Insurance companies?
Right.
No, the only way to mandate coverage for pre-existing conditions is to MANDATE that everyone in the country be enrolled in a health care plan.
You Trump people are just amazing. The hoops you will jump through to make excuses for your Messiah.
So if Bernie Sanders changed his stance on the border you’d back him?
The Trumpster is singing off key here.
However, I have noticed that nobody has been talking about the more traditional role of charities in a picture like this. For the collective Christian church to forget this is not a little matter, it is a major gaffe. It’s one of the ways God gave to do gospel outreach.
Cruz could, in principle, say something — but his mind is probably a million miles away, on how a veneer of Christian values can be implemented by Caesar. Is Trump going to do it? He is more of a free thinker than Cruz, but he only has considered a very limited palette of options, that which has been presented to him.
Like Obama, Trump conflates care with coverage
They know. It was apparent during the Townhall. The last thing Cooper said was pre-existing conditions and what would happen to those people. Trump said he supported THAT mandate. Then later he tweeted that he meant a backstop for people with pre-existing conditions and the film supports that.
What you have now instead of just political opponents playing dirty you have the GOPe and media taking snippets, attaching meaning, and swearing by it even though it's false. And notice, they will never walk back their false accusations.
I am so sick of these people.
Yes, because he would no longer be Bernie Sanders. Now, I can play the same game: please repeat your question en Espanol. Or tell me how hispanics are actually “natural conservatives” to whom we just haven’t given the right sales pitch. Lose the border, and it’s all gone. It probably is anyway.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.