"We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan" - Donald Trump

[TacticalPeek]

Great idea - let's.

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.

The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.

http://www.slate.com/id/2291263/

:evilgrin:

[louis-t]

1. He just lost the entire population of repug voters.

[jpak]

2. I'll vote for that - but the teabaggers won't

The Donald is in a pickle

yup

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Hoo-boy!

That sound you hear is a collective 'whoosh' from conservatroids throwing Donald Trump under the bus.

[benddem]

4. he said yesterday

that Obama care had to go. Does he even know what he is talking about?

[OhioDoink]

5. I don't think he does.

To me it is becoming more obvious by the day.If it wasn't before.
I do like the idea of single payer though.
I still think he's nuts.

[RC]

7. Actually yes in this case.

Obamacare does need to go away and be replaced with Single Payer, Universal Health Care.

[Armstead]

6. Trump actually has some cores of good ideas -- Too bad he's such a jerk

I'm guessing that Trump isn't serious.about running for President (or doesn't really expect to win if he does) and is just doing and saying whatever it takes to generate some publicity and fill his needy ego.

It's too bad though, because he has had some good ideas, and is one of the few who have actually raised the issue of our selling out to China.

If he had decided to actually run an issue oriented campaign, it might have at least made the race more interest g than just the centrist Democrat conventional wisdom vs. the GOP conventional wisdom

[and-justice-for-all]

8. He is a sneaky terd, I do not trust him..nt

[emulatorloo]

9. Excellent article, thanks for posting it. Will be forwarding it around to a

few people,

[Keith Bee]

10. Oops! Donnie should talk to Mitt Romney.....

...and get advice on changing one's core beliefs. :P

[Doctor_J]

11. A Socialist Birther?

:wtf: is this country coming to?

[vaberella]

17. The man is a liberal playing games with the birthers. It's funny...laugh. n/t

[unblock]

12. honestly, i think in his heart of hearts, he's a left-of-center democrat.

but more importantly, he's an egomaniacal opportunist, and running as a democrat against an incumbent rarely pays off. he gets far more publicity and business-friendly rewards for running as a republican. the birther crap is just pandering and attention-seeking.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Good luck with that, The Donald!

Like the Congress would let that happen!
Oh well, talk is always interesting to hear.....
But getting it done; well that ain't as easy
as opening up one's mouth.

[CakeGrrl]

14. Wha? The birthers won't know what to think. Heads will explode.

:rofl:

[GameOn]

15. It would never pass congress. NEver. NT

[vaberella]

16. ROFL!! This show is far superior than his Apprentice show.

He's playing both sides. I like this guy.

[Cobalt-60]

18. they'll say anything to get power

Where was his mouth when it mattered?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. I'm beginning to wonder if Trump is playing "Colbert-esque" head games

with the Republicans? :shrug: There doesn't seem to be any other logical explanation. I wonder if his big announcement is simply going to be that he just "punk'd" the Republicans.......badly?