Posted on 02/19/2016 12:54:46 PM PST by springwater13
Donald J. Trump â€@realDonaldTrump 26m26 minutes ago
I was asked about healthcare by Anderson Cooper & have been consistent- I will repeal all of #ObamaCare, including the mandate, period.
I was referring to a backstop for pre-existing conditions. I will eliminate the law, in its entirety, & replace it w/ something much better.
I will replace it with private plans, health savings accounts, & allow purchasing across state lines. Maximum choice & freedom for consumer.
I'm self-funding and I am going to take care of the people – not the special interests and insurance companies like the other candidates.
Remember, Cruz and Bush gave us Roberts who upheld #ObamaCare twice! I am the only one who will #MAKEAMERICAGREATAGAIN!
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Trump seems pretty content to lie too. At a minimum, he is pretty good at saying different things only minimally separated in time. Someone who supported DeBalsio in 2013 and said good things about Hillary in 2008 and Obama in 2009 doesn’t have much of a track record for conservatism.
His statement on health care - ‘I’ll do something, it will be great’ - doesn’t exactly reassure me, particularly since his comment last night is consistent with the central feature of Obamacare - the mandate for health insurance. And his saying he doesn’t want people dying in the streets - as if they WERE dying in the streets - is very much a Democrat theme, and one that ignores what was going on before Obamacare.
I don’t think it is too much to ask a candidate for president to say something more specific than “It will be great, trust me”.
That is something I’ve always noticed with him. He is not an eloquent speaker. He is always all over the place. He bounces from subject to subject or as you stated, “can’t even complete a simple train of thought”.
Yet people will argue this and call you a demoncrat if you bring it up (so be prepared).
Really?
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“I’m not sure obamacare can be done away with. If the law was all of a sudden overturned chaos would reign in the industry. I don’t know what the solution is.”
So you think not having a gubmint control creates chaos? No, it will be a free market opportunity.
Ok, sorry. I didn’t get the joke. I retract my comment and admit my poor knowledge of pop culture.
” In fact, just about anyone chosen at random from any phone book anywhere in the USA would be great compared to Obama!”
But Obama is not running in the Republican primary. Cruz and others are, and I don’t see where Trump measures up against Cruz.
Repealing Obamacare is great! Removing the state line boundaries is great. Opening up competition is great. Anything else is icing.
I love Cruz. But if Trump wins the nomination, I will not sit it out. I will support him.
Mandate is no problem if healthcare costs go down substantially.
Healthcare costs BEFORE OBAMACARE were killing the working class. So even if Obamacare was never passed, the healthcare system was still horse-crap.
Also, mandates have been in existence for over 7 decades, in the form emergency room healthcare. No one in this country dies on the street because they do not have health insurance.
When uninsured people receive healthcare, and can not pay the bills, the cost gets passed on to all others.
If everybody can buy cheap insurance, with mandates, costs come down for everybody, because people get treated in a timely manner, before the disease becomes more serious.
If Trump says while running in 2016 both that he likes the mandate, and that he’ll repeal all of Obamacare, what will he actually DO in 2017 if he wins?
If PP does good things, but also provides abortions, will he fund PP for non-abortions, freeing up their private funds to use for abortion?
I understand anger, but I don’t think anger alone constitutes a plan.
And whoever is handing you your Dem talking points should have explained to you that Democrats passed that ordinance. But then how could you have known that since you are programmed to be force-fed by Big Brother. But hey, thanks for playing. Tell your DU buddies they will have to try harder next time.
Please read my post no. 89.
And take a look at my profile page which is pretty much
what Trump will come up with. I have been studying this health insurance issue for a long time.
If the congress sends a bill to him repealing Obamacare, he will sign it.
Likewise, if the congress sends a bill to him defunding Planned Parenthood, he will sign it.
So was he lying before or lying now... or did he just change his mind or what? Trump is all over the place on these issues. I don’t think he knows what he believes. He just wants to do deals. :-)
The only way to accomplish universal coverage is a public system operating on a fixed budget for the 15%-20% who need it.
If we don’t do this, and fast, we’re going to wind up with a public fixed budget system for everybody, which will be a disaster.
We’ve had county hospitals before, there’s no mystery about how to do it.
“Obamacare” is failing because that’s what it was designed to do.
I LIKE THE MANDATE..
I WILL REMOVE THE MANDATE
I LIKE THE MANDATE
I WILL REMOVE THE MANDATE
Where will the wheel end after election??
“But if Trump wins the nomination, I will not sit it out. I will support him.”
With the exception of voting for John McCain’s opponent in his last race for the Senate, I haven’t voted for a democrat in decades. Given how far left Hillary and Sanders are, I probably will hold my nose and vote for Trump in a general election, and hope he does a better job than Arnold did in California. But in fairness to Arnold, he made deals in California, and that is what Trump says he will do in DC.
Glad I’m long out of California...but I’m scared about the future of America. I spent 25 years in the military, retired in 2008, and by 2016 I find it hard to recognize the country. GWB wasn’t perfect, but I’d give a lot to see America just return as far back as 2006! It has only been 10 years!
All fine, but I wouldn’t call it “universal.” Thanks.
We should not be cutting deals with progressives. We should be opposing them and defeating them. They do not have America's best interests at heart.
Skill at making deals is only a positive characteristic if Trump is trying to accomplish positive things in those deals. If he's trying to raise taxes, socialize healthcare, spend more on bailouts, or appoint liberal judges, I don't care how good of a dealmaker he is. What good is his dealmaking skill if it results in him cutting a deal with liberals to have single payer healthcare?
Universal healthcare mandated by congress would be unconstitutional. Obamacare should have been struck down. Roberts screwed the pooch. (Capt Obvious here)
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