Donald Trump: Obamacares going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at whats going on with premiums where theyre up 40, 50, 55 percent.So you owe Linda Frances an apology. Any reasonable reader of that text would be crazy if they didn't read that as universal healthcare. It absolutely is, at least in that interview, and that's from back last September, IIRC.
Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?
Donald Trump: Theres many different ways, by the way. Everybodys 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 cant afford private. But
Scott Pelley: Universal health care.
Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. Everybodys going to be taken care of much better than theyre taken care of now.
Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
Donald Trump: Theyre 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 governments gonna pay for it. But were going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most its going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.
We already are and were paying for the lower percent medical but doing so in the most costly way possible. Our ERs were used with massive cost overruns for doing it and we paid much more for our medical because health care had to charge a ton to cover for the poor who could not pay.
Pretending we can shut off the cost of the poor for medical is ignorance. What will happen is massive costs and inefficient ad-hoc health care costing us much more then something like a safety net with cost controls at that level of society.
I hate Socialism. But to reverse this train we have to use our heads. If Obamacare was repealed absolutely as you implied to attack Trump. Then we would be back to the extremely costly ER room as doctors office for the very poor. A better way is to control costs at that level and create incentives to get off the poor wagon.
If you have a better PRACTICAL solution please feel free to post it. What Trump has proposed is the most effective and common sense method of dealing with a problem we have using the tools we have.
A question a Ryan Nominator should be asking is how did Cruz plan to pay for the medical care of the 500 percent H1B visa increase and doubling of Syrian Muslims he tried to poison us with?