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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 1999: "If you cant take care of your sick in the country,.. I believe in universal healthcare"
PolitifactIn 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 cant take care of your sick in the country, forget it, its 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
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bunnies
(15,859 posts)1. Well...
Things have obviously changed. Also, you can't believe a damn thing he says. Ever.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Trump believes in absolutely, positively
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
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!