Did Trump Even Care About Health Care? Or Was It Just Because It Was Called Obamacare?

[eniwetok]

Trump never demonstrated much grasp of any of the issues during the campaign... and it was even more obvious when he finally admitted health care was "complicated".

So I have to wonder when Trump FIRST went after ACA? If it was really early in his campaign... I suspect Trump was motivated by his hatred of Obama.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Look at the number of issues Trump has had opposite opinions on. It's all a "means to an end"

for him.

[Freethinker65]

2. Trump only cares about Trump

[bdamomma]

3. of course

he has no soul. He is taking his revenge on the country and its people. Bannon/Putin must be in their glory.

[eniwetok]

6. You mean Amerika First, Americans Last?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028801137

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Trump is an idiot

His ideas are all based on the last person he talked to or the last thing he saw on t.v.

[eniwetok]

10. Obviously...

Obviously Trump is an idiot... of the self-sabotaged intellect type... but my question is when did Trump focus on Obamacare? Was it that he had ANY understanding of the issues? Or was it he reacted like a 3 year old to the name "OBAMAcare"?

[truebluegreen]

5. I think he is aware how effed up our system is,

but since he is rather dim and entirely clueless on how to fix it, he is easily led.

He would be easy for us the manipulate as well--if he didn't have a fortress of conservatives around him. That won't change.

[eniwetok]

7. he's had enough time to think...

Obviously Single Payer IS the best solution to all our health care problems. Canada spends 50% of what we do to cover everyone... and we piss away 100% more to leave tens of millions un- or underinsured.

And yet we have to ask why the obvious never occurs to Trump and Ryan.

[cilla4progress]

8. Totally

He is like an 11 year old...or maybe 3 year old.

[rgbecker]

9. Trump gets his info from Fox News and is misinformed.

Misinformed, like all the other Fox News viewers, not just ill-informed.

What Hannity tells him is what he knows.

[oberliner]

11. Republicans never particularly cared about health care

Until Democrats tries to do something about it.

[eniwetok]

15. at least no GOPers since... Nixon?

http://khn.org/news/nixon-proposal/

Reagan's win seems to have ended any hope of a moderate GOP.... and it's been downhill since then.

[MrScorpio]

12. If Obama was for it, Trump's automatically against it

It's not any more straightforward than that.

[nancy1942]

13. He neither knows or cares.

He says whatever he thinks his oafish followers want to hear. He has no moral code whatsoever. He is insane. He will destroy our country while we all sit here discussing our plight. Trouble is NO- ONE has a clue as to what on earth CAN be done to get rid of the moron.

[MFM008]

14. he despises Barack Obama enough

to attempt to destroy everything he did, even the small stuff.
Let alone the legacy stuff.
Coz he told a couple jokes at a dinner.
Now were stuck with a psychotic vile roach.

[eniwetok]

16. chicken and egg...

Obama was mocking Trump's birtherism back in 2011... but Trump's dementia came first.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802949/Did-Trump-decide-run-Obama-mocked-birther-conspiracy-theorist-White-House-dinner.html

[Vinca]

17. Trump has spoken positively about single-payer in the past, which would make sense

since his businesses would be off the hook for providing health insurance and we know Don doesn't want to spend a dime on anyone other than Don. But, his brain seems so scrambled at this point I don't think it matters if he cares or doesn't care he's just going to sign whatever they put in front of him. The main "ain't right."