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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:31 PM Mar 2017

Trump 1999: "If you cant take care of your sick in the country,.. I believe in universal healthcare"

Politifact

In July 2015, conservative columnist Erick Erickson wrote that Trump "has supported a Canadian-style universal health care system."

Our partners at PunditFact.com issued a rating of True.

In 1999, during his short-lived 2000 Reform Party presidential bid, Trump told CNN's Larry King: "If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. ... I believe in universal healthcare."

And in his 2000 book "The America We Deserve," Trump made a strong pitch for universal health care. As to how the country might achieve universal coverage, Trump focused on a Canadian-style, single-payer plan.

So, Trump has supported single payer in the past.

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Trump 1999: "If you cant take care of your sick in the country,.. I believe in universal healthcare" (Original Post) Jimbo101 Mar 2017 OP
Well... bunnies Mar 2017 #1
Trump believes in absolutely, positively COLGATE4 Mar 2017 #2
Yep! GWC58 Mar 2017 #3

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
2. Trump believes in absolutely, positively
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:51 PM
Mar 2017

NOTHING. He'll say anything, believe anything and flip in a heartbeat. He is truly a walking (badly fitting) empty suit, filled with nothing more than completely unjustified arrogance, intellectual laziness and overwhelming narcisism

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
3. Yep!
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:09 PM
Mar 2017

He also said the only way to fight the drug problem was to legalize all drugs. How's that turning out? Looks like Trump is going to let loose his AG on legal cannabis. Nixon, Reagan and now Trump!

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