So rather than answering the "dying on the streets" claim, he could have simply said that it should be a state responsibility because states are constrained by balanced budget requirements, and the feds aren't.
Of course, I suppose I'm wrong in calling it a mistake, because it wasn't. It's very clear from the whole contest that he meant exactly what he said.
No, Trump made the horrible mistake of assuming the entitlement mentality that it is the role of the federal government to ensure that everyone has health care.
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I serve on the board of one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States and I assure you, that the Feds give us money to take care of the indigent people already no matter what you think about it. Oh and it gets priority over other spending so there’s that.
What Trump has discussed is letting everyone get covered through allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines which would be fine.
He said everyone would be covered, if he says the government would pay for each individual person in the US he mispoke as it does not comport with his written materials.
I will agree with you on one thing. Trump needs to get his A game together on some of these messages. His plan was to run on a very limited platform, that if successful would restore America.
Trump would be better off stating that he is looking forward to working with our Republican legislature, of course no one likes them either!