Posted on 07/19/2015 10:46:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
"We must have universal healthcare," wrote Trump. "I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses."
The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. "Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork," he writes.
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GOP-e and C of C are in spending money to pay for trolls mode.
He’s not a professional pol and he wasn’t running for office then. I believe he’s tempered his views to the not-controversial take that those who can’t afford it should still get healthcare in this country.
The leftists of the media and Free Republic are really throwing everything they have at Donald Trump.
Flak...Target
Wow. Just...wow. Incredible.
It's come to this, has it?
Personally, I think it will be Cruz, Walker, or God forbid, Senor Bush. Trump will have a major say in the eventual nominee.
well Donald could start and Cruz could turn him down and help plan and execute.
I think that Donald would then bring about Cruz for two terms, but either will do.
The question is, should the government be involved in healthcare at all, and if so, what should that role be?
Trump is a loud mouth in-for-himself, loose cannon, who will pander to whoever can best give him the attention he needs.
Trump damages conservative chances of winning, because his flippant bombasticly frank style delegitimizes topics that matter. He is serving a purpose to make conservatives radioactive.
Unfortunately our guys ARE LOCKED in that LIB box because of MONEY and DONORS regardless of OUR SIDE wanting to break those chains they are DEPENDENT on the MONEY!!!!!! just like regular folks on WELFARE!!!!!
No, he wants to replace it with a Market Based Plan. If you bothered to listen to his Phoenix Speech, he said that we should be allowing Healthcare Companies to compete over State lines, just as EVERY Republican has said for Years.
Funny how they just couldn’t pull it off, huh?
The other delusion here is that the Politicians will just cancel Obamacare and the People getting their Free Healthcare Coverage from Uncle Sugar will be joyful that they lost it.
That is as laughable as the Government Deporting 20,000,000 Illegal Invaders. If they don’t self deport because we stop coddling them, it would be a shocker. That is the only way to get rid of them. The Government won’t be filling Southbound Railcars with Illegal Invaders although that is a Wet Dream for some People on our side of things.
Trump wants to replace Obamacare with something that actually works and is cost efficient and Market Driven.
Hauling out a four Year Old Trump Interview that took place before the Country was force fed Obamacare by the SCOTUS is ridiculous. Things change and People have to react to them.
I’m a Cruz guy but I seem to be spending my Days here correcting the record for Trump. How did that happen? LOL
Oh yes, one other thing. If the Election were held today, pulling the Handle for a Cruz / Trump Ticket might actually be appealing to me. The Republican Field continues to disappoint with the exception of Senator Cruz.
I pray Senator Cruz gets some Traction to help Cull the Herd, especially getting rid of the Jebster. What a waste of skin that guy turned out to be, but he is a Bush.
Trump is getting kicked from all sides and his Business has been impacted by those who hope to destroy him for the views he represents.
Sorry, but I can no longer buy the Trump is for Trump line unless you can prove he has a hidden Sadomasochistic side.
He was running in 1999 when he said he supported single payer, universal healthcare, and that healthcare was an "entitlement from birth".
Speaking with CNN host Larry King in 1999 when he was flirting with a run for president on the Reform Party ticket, Trump said he was “quite liberal” when it came to health care.
“I said I’m conservative, generally speaking, I’m conservative, and even very conservative,” Trump told King in response to a question about a “patients’ bill of rights.”
“But I’m quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What’s the purpose of a country if you’re not going to have defensive and health care?’
“I think it is. It’s an entitlement to this country, and too bad the world can’t be, you know, in this country. But the fact is, it’s an entitlement to this country if we’re going to have a great country.”
Please. Trump has flip flopped so much he makes Romney look principled.
He’s a sham and stalking horse to draw conservative support away from someone like Cruz and directly to Jeb and, ultimately, the Hildebeast
The reason why we have Obamacare is that Republicans ignored real problems for too long.
When Ocare was being debated I brought up that we need to find solutions for the people in the worst trouble and all I got back was crickets.
I’m a conservative/libertarian on most issues, but the fact is that we have had serious problems with our healthcare system for decades. The ‘eat or be eaten’ attitude doesn’t help with that situation.
Here’s an example. A nine year old is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (autoimmune). Nobody did anything wrong. He didn’t deserve it. His parents’ insurance or Medicaid or CHIP help get him through until he’s 18.
Then what?
He needs medication every few hours to live. He has a preexisting condition, so what insurance he can get, no 18 year old can afford. He’s able-bodied enough to work s he’s disqualified from gov’t help, but doesn’t yet have the education or the experience to get a good job with benefits. He can forget college because he can’t survive four years without insurance.
That’s my son’s situation.
I saw the trouble with Obamacare and I still do. I see exactly where it’s bitten our entire nation in the butt and I know that it needs to go.
But right now, my (previously uninsured) son had insurance for $200 a month with a zero deductible and a $20 co-pay for most services. He’s in the process of building a career and he’s going to be alright now.
When he was young, I called around. We were talking monthly premiums of $3600 a month with a $10,000 deductible. Nobody in our family could afford that. I asked other diabetics how they managed and their solutions were scary. Reusing needles and sharpening them with a nail file. Not testing. Not going to the dr for follow-ups. Stretching insulin and allowing their BGs to stay high.
Here’s another situation. Knew a man who had cancer of the brain when he was a toddler. He had a complete cure. By the time he was grown, he was a completely healthy adult.
But he had cancer in his record. Same situation as my son.
He had the option to join the army at least. That’s what saved him.
Obamacare was not a good solution to this problem, but it was *something*.
Trump is RIGHT that we can’t just drop Obamacare and go back to the way things were. I do believe that it’s going to take a combination of free market principles to bring prices down and some sort of universal healthcare for those who can’t afford it. We also need to invest in research to get cures on fast tracked and on the table. X-prizes galore. Then pass the laws so that the FDA can fast-track these treatments.
One of the problems is the 3rd party payer system. But the big problem is that we’ve developed technologies to keep sick people alive for much longer. Chronic conditions are going through the roof because we’re getting better at keeping people on life support. My son would’ve been dead years ago without modern medicine.
Did you know that one of the biggest burdens on Medicare is dialysis?
Everyone wants the best, but nobody can afford it.
We’re over a technological hump when it comes to medicine. Perhaps, in 100 years, we’ll have developed a ton of affordable solutions. But we’ve got to get there.
Ignoring the problems aren’t going to make them go away. And desperate people will go to the person who offers them *anything*.
Republicans can no longer stand still and hope that people want to keep things just the way they are. We have to offer solutions - better solutions than the opposition.
And NO. I’m not just saying this because of Trump. I’ve been saying this on FR since 2008.
“If Trump is a Democrat he is better than Hill.”
Wow. Just...wow. Incredible.
It’s come to this, has it?
Hello? Are you even listening?
We are not going to get Cruz as President in 2017. We can’t fight the media. We can’t fight the two-headed Statist Party (R and D).
Can’t you see that??????
It will end up being a GOPe and Hillary — maybe a different dem depending on if anyone can get any of her evil actins to stick to her. Not likely.
Trump, whatever he feels about abortion or gay marriage or healthcare, seriously, IS BETTER THAN HILLARY.
Truth or Lies? I choose Truth.
Trump is not only NOT a Conservative, he is the LEAST electable of all the Republican candidates.
Trump is the most vulnerable to the Left Wing media because he has so much baggage they won’t need to make stuff up about him or blow things out of proportion to discredit him. Hillary would win 60% of the vote against him.
No. You are wrong. If it were Trump against Hillary, she would have to lie so incredibly much she couldn’t keep it up. Trump only has to tell the truth. Democrats I know, and I know A LOT, like the fresh truth as much as we do.
In the end, what else do we have?
I can’t believe actual human beings on FR are telling me they would rather have another election between GOPe and an enemy of America. REALLY?
Of course Trump supports it, just like the rest of corporate crony capitalists who no longer want to PAY for employee’s care or be the tax collector for it.
People still do not get that, dem, lib, rino dino— the globalist neo-socialist venture capitalists and venture socialists answer to one thing- their balance sheets. The creation of the US debacle obamaumaocare was coming, and Romneycare was the rubber stamp. Every single corporate board wanted to, and got cost shifting.
This parallels the history of healthcare in for example the coal country. The gradual separation of the operators from the cost of healthcare for workers, and the creation of fedgov agencies created at the operator’s behest to force the cost and management of the care of the workers on ALL US taxpayers. Cost- shifting. Always— cost shifting from the balance books. Simple really.
Obamaumaocare was pushed by corporate US (the Chamber of Commerce) and global outfits, precisely for the same reason wealthy socialists like Trump supported it— they eliminate the cost of the care for themselves. Which is very interesting because of the position of Trump on illegals— and here, it is the flood of illegals that will bankrupt further the already destroyed obamaumaocare financing.
Clearly, when Trump about repealing obamacare he means he wants to replace it with something even worse.Oh, brother. Who's the idiot in this picture?
Trump Supports National Health CareSo do all the other Republicans and if you think Cruz or anyone else can single handedly repeal Obama care you're a bigger fool than you've displayed here.
Real Conservatives want a real Conservative to run against the Democrats. Trump would be by far the least Conservative GOP candidate in decades (with the possibile exception of Romney).
I would hate see Jeb Bush be the candidate. Trump is far more Liberal than Jeb.
It’s not like we have a choice.
You are only pretending you have a choice. You can hear conservatism in the campaign, maybe by the best one out there, Ted Cruz, but he has the media machine to fight and he won’t win it. The nom will be (not sure how legally nominated, either) the least damaged goper. This time I bet very few of the “base” will even show up to vote for him.
You have hillary or you have trump. And the latter has introduced actual truth into politics in America. I love truth.
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