Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?
Donald Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, “No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private.” But—
Scott Pelley: Universal health care?
Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.
Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of how?
Donald Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—
Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Donald Trump: —the government’s gonna pay for it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley
This would be kind of going back to the status quo ante Obamacare, except now hospitals won’t have to eat it.
And that is STILL better than Obamacare and STILL better than socialized medicine.
I already told you that it’s not ideal, but just allowing insurance to trade across state lines is a big deal. Have you not listened to any of Trump’s rallies? When he talks about Obamacare, that’s the biggest thing on what he wants to replace it with: free market competition w. Medicaid-style welfare.
I don’t like the Medicaid-style welfare, but this plan is nothing at all like you’re claiming it is.
Good post. My impression is Trump is just pandering, as is everyone else.
This race seems to be boiling down to a salesman vs a lawyer. They both over promise and you can only tell they’re lying when their lips move.
I’ve worked with beaucoup salesmen in my time and they are rather easily held accountable. Lawyers, not so much.
“Donald Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—
Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Donald Trump: —the government’s gonna pay for it.”
That is clearly not single payer. It is no more universal health care than what we already have, in which taxpayers end up paying for those that are not covered, one way or another.
Telling, isn’t it?