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Donald Trump said that he would veto Sander's Single Payer bill. I wonder if there is something more going on behind the scenes?
On at least 6 different public appearances, Donald Trump has gone on the record to say that he supported a Single Payer health care system. Most recently, in February of 2016, at a CNN Town Hall, he mentioned health care coverage, very similar to Sander's proposal.
https://mic.com/articles/172215/ber...t-donald-trump-should-already-love#.UjLlB02GI
There's gonna be a group of people at the bottom, people that haven't done well, people that don't have any money that won't be able to be taken care of. We're gonna take care of them through maybe concepts of Medicare. We have hospitals that aren't doing well. We have doctors aren't doing well. You cannot let people die on the street, OK? Now some people would say, "That's not a very Republican thing to say." Every time I say this at a rally, or even today I said it, once again a standing ovation, I said, you know, the problem is everybody thinks that you people as Republicans hate the concept of taking care of people that are really, really sick and are gonna die.
All six instances are covered in the above article. Most are much more direct opinions than the CNN Town Hall. The majority of Americans favor Single-Payer, and it certainly wouldn't hurt Trump's approval ratings, to accomplish something of this magnitude.
On at least 6 different public appearances, Donald Trump has gone on the record to say that he supported a Single Payer health care system. Most recently, in February of 2016, at a CNN Town Hall, he mentioned health care coverage, very similar to Sander's proposal.
https://mic.com/articles/172215/ber...t-donald-trump-should-already-love#.UjLlB02GI
There's gonna be a group of people at the bottom, people that haven't done well, people that don't have any money that won't be able to be taken care of. We're gonna take care of them through maybe concepts of Medicare. We have hospitals that aren't doing well. We have doctors aren't doing well. You cannot let people die on the street, OK? Now some people would say, "That's not a very Republican thing to say." Every time I say this at a rally, or even today I said it, once again a standing ovation, I said, you know, the problem is everybody thinks that you people as Republicans hate the concept of taking care of people that are really, really sick and are gonna die.
All six instances are covered in the above article. Most are much more direct opinions than the CNN Town Hall. The majority of Americans favor Single-Payer, and it certainly wouldn't hurt Trump's approval ratings, to accomplish something of this magnitude.
