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The 2010 election was a rebellion against the ACA, and our big triumph is going to be electing a guy who agrees with it's principles, if not the specific. Better off with gridlock and letting it collapse of its own weight.

We didn't have a free market before ObamaCare

Q: in 2000, you wrote that you're a liberal on health care, and you supported a Canadian-style system, where the government acts as an insurer. Is that what you still believe?
A: You know, I looked at that. I looked at it very seriously. Some people don't agree with me on this: I want everyone to have coverage. I love the free market, but we never had a free market. Even before ObamaCare, it wasn't really free market. As an example, in New York, when I wanted to bid out my health insurance, we had boundaries. I could only go in New York. If I wanted to bid it out to a company from California or New Jersey, anywhere--you get no bids.
Q: But the single payer, you're not interested anymore?
A: No. No, these are different times. And over the years, you are going to change your attitudes. You're going to learn things and you're going to change. And I have evolved on that issue. I have evolved on numerous issues. Source: CNN SOTU 2015 interview series: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jun 28, 2015

Kill ObamaCare before it becomes a trillion-ton weight

Obamacare can't be reformed, salvaged, or fixed. It's that bad. Obamacare has to be killed now before it grows into an even bigger mess, as it inevitably will. Obamacare takes full effect in 2014. If it's not repealed before then, it will be more than just another failed government entitlement program--it will be the trillion-ton weight that finally takes down our economy forever.
Obamacare is a heat-seeking missile that will destroy jobs & small businesses; it will explode health-care costs; and it will lead to health care that is far less innovative than it is today. Every argument that you'd make against socialism you can make against socialized health care, and any candidate who isn't 100% committed to scrapping Obamacare is not someone America should elect president. Repealing Obamacare may be one of the most important and consequential actions our next president takes.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p.121-122 , Dec 5, 2011

You still ignored his statement from the September 2015 interview where he flatly said the government is going to pay to ensure everyone is covered.

All you're arguing is that Trump doesn't like the particular mechanisms of Obamacare. But you've offered nothing to refute his September 2015 tatement that he thinks the government should pay to ensure everyone is covered, and not even Obamacare goes that far.

Nor have you addressed his opposition to Social Security and Medicare benefit reform, which used to be cornerstones of Republican efforts to get the entitlement state back under control. Instead, Trump attacked those candidates who advocated modifying those programs to make them more fiscally sound.

Pure populist demagoguery.