Posted on 07/18/2015 6:25:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is standing by his past support for universal health care.
“I want people taken care of in the country, okay? You can call it anything you want, but I want — including people that don’t have anything,” The Donald told radio host John Fredericks in an interview Wednesday. “We gotta do that.”
Trump said in 1999 — when he was flirting with a presidential rub on the Reform Party ticket — that the U.S. should make health care an entitlement and that coverage should be universal.
“I would put forward a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes,” Trump said at the time.
Trump said as president he was going to get people good plans that would have low costs.
“You know, I’m a very conservative guy, I’m Republican, I’m — number one, the people that can do it, we’re gonna get them plans that are so good, and we’re gonna break the borders, we’re gonna go, you know, the private plans,” he stated.
“You know, a lot of people had plans they loved, before Obamacare came along. You probably did. I have friends that had really good plans — now they have horrible plans, and they’re paying five times more for them. We’re gonna get great plans, we’re not gonna have huge costs.
The biggest thing the government has to do is make sure these companies are very, very solvent, you know, that they’re very strong. Because what you don’t want is having a company collapse, right? So that’s the only function of the government. ”
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How much cost we gonna save, Donald? About $2500??
Deal breaker.
Populist Flavor of the Week Ping.
If anyone can figure out a deal like this, it is Trump
I am glad he is out there on this, like it or not
It is never going away
so might as well figure out a solution that invites the cooperation of free markets instead of demonizing and strangling them
Catastropic insurance
Tort reform
Buying insurance across state lines
There are some basic reforms that could be done by government which would make private insurance better and cheaper for everyone.
Beyond that, Medicare and Medicaid can probably ensure “universal” coverage. But any attempt to extend “universal” coverage through the federal government to middle-aged people with middle class jobs is just foolish. That’s what Obama did. I’m pretty sure Trump wants no part of that.
Ears plugged, eyes shut? All together now, Trumpeteers: La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la!
The problem is that insurance exists at all.
You’ve got it right.
RE: Deal breaker.
For KNOWLEDGEABLE CONSERVATIVES, Trump was never the deal at all.
People only cheer him because of two things:
1) His fearlessness and his giving the proverbial finger to the PC crowd.
2) His striking a nerve about illegal immigration.
When you look at his other policy ideas, they are a mish mash of failed Democratic or RINO policies.
“The truth will out.”
-William Shakespeare
Stick s fork in him he’s done.
A socialist always going to ground.
This will appeal to many working class Democrats and Republicans making up a good chunk of the electorate. If he can win the nomination without the support of the medical lobby, he’s got a good shot in the general.
I’m also for univeral health care too. Its called the free market which drives down prices
The market hasn't been free for decades and Trump is just proposing a new shackle and more tampering. It is pure vanity that he thinks he can do better than millions of us shaping the market with our decisions of what to buy or not buy.
This could well be Trump's Waterloo.
My thoughts exactly. Trump had my ear on many things, but this turns me away. Fix the system through tort reform and malpractice reform. The idea that taxes should fund a universal health care system has been tried for decades and is a failing proposition. "Universal" health care and capitalism do not work together.
So what is your plan. Doesn't matter if you like it or not some sort of universal plan will happen, conservatives or liberals or not.
Why? The wall fell. The Soviet Union collapsed. Communism can be rolled back.
Socialism is backwards.
Let’s see the plan and the reasoning behind it.
There’s nothing to lose by exploring the options. What we have now is designed - that’s designed - to cripple the economy and eliminate the middle class.
Is Uh Oh spelled Uh Oh?
Or some other way?
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