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.
Under what provision of the Constitution does it authorize Congress to compel hospitals to treat people who are not going to pay for their services?
I can't find it.
Perhaps Mr. Trump, that great constitutional scholar, can point it out for all of us.
Perhaps not.