Trump: Unlike Cruz, ‘I Have a Heart,’ I’ll Enact Universal Health Coverage

[mountaineer]

Trump: Unlike Cruz, ‘I Have a Heart,’ I’ll Enact Universal Health Coverage
Tom S. Elliott, National Review
Jan. 31, 2016

In an interview this morning on This Week, Donald Trump cited his desire to “help people” as the reason he favors government-funded universal health coverage.

 Unlike Ted Cruz, Trump said, “I have a heart.”

 “If somebody has no money and they’re lying in the middle of the street and they’re dying, I’m going to take care of that person,” Trump said.

Host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump “how do you do it?” And Trump explained his plan thusly:

We’re going to work with our hospitals. We’re going to work with our doctors. We’ve got to do something. You can’t have a — a small percentage of our economy, because they’re down and out, have absolutely no protection so they end up dying from, you know, what you could have a simple procedure or even a pill. You can’t do that. We’ll work something out. That doesn’t mean single payer. And I mean, maybe he’s got no heart. And if this means I lose an election, that’s fine, because, frankly, we have to take care of the people in our country. We can’t let them die on the sidewalks of New York or the sidewalks of Iowa or anywhere else.

If this has been posted, sorry for the duplicate. Question: what type of program is he proposing that isn't "single payer" but takes care of everyone?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Question: what type of program is he proposing that isn't "single payer" but takes care of everyone?

Big hearted Trumpcare.  Don't you worry about it.  You're going to love it. 

Two phone calls by President Trump and it's done! 
Next problem.

[ABX]

What he really meant was.... in 5,4,3,2....

[mountaineer]

It will be fantastic and everyone will love it, whatever form it takes.

“I play to people’s fantasies,” Trump writes in “The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 memoir. “I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.”

[massadvj]

Whenever a politician says "I have a heart" he means he wants to steal your money to pay for his empathy.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Daniel Horowitz@RMConservative

Trump's closing argument: Make socialized medicine great again
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/trump-reveals-his-liberal-heart

Had Trump spent more time studying the government he seeks to run instead of pandering for the endorsements of Bob Dole and his less charismatic mini-me, Terry Branstad, The Donald would understand that we already spend hundreds of billions on Medicaid, S-Chip, and an array of state programs for those who would “die on the sidewalks” because they have no money.  Medicaid alone will cost us $350 billion this year.  The “dying on the sidewalk” Alinsky argument is a non-sequitur.  The real question is what happens with the rest of us.  Either we are all forced into single-payer, which has been Trump’s long-standing position.  Or we are forced into something similar to Obamacare’s coverage mandates that he won’t specify.

 

[jmyrlefuller]

If this has been posted, sorry for the duplicate. Question: what type of program is he proposing that isn't "single payer" but takes care of everyone?

Perhaps a competitive "public option" the likes of which was proposed in the original Obamacare draft? Where whoever doesn't buy private insurance is put into the public system? Or maybe something along the lines of the UK's NHS...

[TBBT]

Horowitz: Trump Reveals His Liberal Heart

By: Daniel Horowitz | January 31, 2016

Republicans have always specialized in running candidates that accept the most important premises of liberal governance and make themselves indistinguishable from their Democrat counterparts.  They should patent their pale pastels, which blend in so effectively there is no discernable ink contrasting their talking points to Democrat policies.

In 2012, Republicans concocted a brilliant electoral plan.  In an race fought over healthcare, they managed to nominate the only human being in America who implemented Obamacare before President Obama did.  Now that the Democrat front-runner is Hillary Clinton, the original god-mother of single-payer healthcare, Republicans are on the cusp of nominating the one man in the GOP who has long championed Marxist healthcare policies.

In case anyone thought Donald Trump has indeed undergone a cathartic change since deciding to run for president and is no longer promoting New York values, he wants everyone to know if you oppose universal healthcare, you don’t have a heart.  Here is what he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this morning:

Read more here:

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/trump-reveals-his-liberal-heart

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Town Hall, Dec. 28, 2015

" ...  Until now, he has not taken a position on healthcare, but when asked about it recently by Scott Pelley on CBS’ 60 Minutes, his responses were more consistent with those of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, than those of the GOP.

“Obamacare’s going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster”, said Trump. But when Pelley sought specifics from him, not only did his knowledge deficit in this area stand out, but his Conservative bonafides needed re-examination.

Trump explained that “everybody’s got to be covered”, and with him as President, “ everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” When Pelley pointed out that he was describing a universal healthcare plan and asked who would pay for it, Trump stated “the government’s gonna pay for it. But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most, it’s 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” and he would “make a deal with existing hospitals to take care” of uninsured Americans.  ...

Trump's website doesn't seem to have a policy statement on healthcare, although immigration, tax reform, the 2nd Amendment and other issues are addressed. So I guess I'm just wondering how his government-funded healthcare system would work.

[Bigun]

Whenever a politician says "I have a heart" he means he wants to steal your money to pay for his empathy.

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[Formerly Once-Ler]

Trump is against people dying on the sidewalk.  Another bold position by the man of a thousand positions!

[NavyCanDo]

Trump is against people dying on the sidewalk. 

Unless he put them their by shooting them - then its "look at me, they still love me"

[Bigun]

If Donald Trump is a Republican then I damned sure ain't one!

[Sanguine]

Unless he put them their by shooting them - then its "look at me, they still love me"

 

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Unless he put them their by shooting them - then its "look at me, they still love me"

Good point!  Trump is both for and against people dying on the street.  He is the Shimmer of politics.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shimmer-floor-wax/n8625

He's a floor wax AND a dessert topping.

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[EasyAce]

Unlike Cruz, ‘I Have a Heart’ . . .

Bumper sticker/bulletin board material for any candidate not named Trump: Unlike Trump, I have a brain . . .