Trump: Unlike Cruz, ‘I Have a Heart,’ I’ll Enact Universal Health Coverage
In an interview this morning on This Week, Donald Trump cited his desire to “help people” as the reason he favors government-funded universal health coverage.
Unlike Ted Cruz, Trump said, “I have a heart.” “If somebody has no money and they’re lying in the middle of the street and they’re dying, I’m going to take care of that person,” Trump said.
Host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump “how do you do it?” And Trump explained his plan thusly: We’re going to work with our hospitals. We’re going to work with our doctors. We’ve got to do something. You can’t have a — a small percentage of our economy, because they’re down and out, have absolutely no protection so they end up dying from, you know, what you could have a simple procedure or even a pill. You can’t do that. We’ll work something out. That doesn’t mean single payer. And I mean, maybe he’s got no heart. And if this means I lose an election, that’s fine, because, frankly, we have to take care of the people in our country. We can’t let them die on the sidewalks of New York or the sidewalks of Iowa or anywhere else.
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This will cost Trump a lot of conservative votes but I still enjoy the shots at Cruz.
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He has not been painted in the best light by Dems and some R's, like his rat-mates running for pres.
But I also think he's got to be amazed he's gotten this far and wants to see if he can make it.
It appears so.
You heard that right. Freepers defending single payer.
And I'm loving it 
The shit storms are coming
If not single-payer, if not everyone who's qualified to have it, what's your plan, Donald? 
Answer: he doesn't have one. He's going to get the best minds together, like his buddy Carl Icahn, who btw, I decided to learn something about today. Here is from wikipedia, and I only got up to the mid- 1980's:
snip: Business career and interests[edit]
Icahn began his career on Wall Street as a stockbroker in 1961 and in 1968, he formed Icahn & Co., a securities firm that focused on risk arbitrage and options trading.[10][11] In 1978, he began taking controlling positions in individual companies.[2] He has taken substantial or controlling positions in various corporations including RJR Nabisco, TWA, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Uniroyal, Dan River, Marshall Field's, E-II (Culligan and Samsonite), American Can, USX, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Imclone, Federal-Mogul, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster, Kerr-McGee, Time Warner, Netflix, Motorola, and Herbalife.
Icahn developed a reputation as a ruthless "corporate raider" after his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985.[12] The result of that takeover was Icahn systematically selling TWA's assets to repay the debt he used to purchase the company, which was described as asset stripping. In 1988, Icahn took TWA private, gaining a personal profit of $469 million, and leaving TWA with a debt of $540 million. In 1991, Icahn sold TWA's prized London routes to American Airlines for $445 million.[13] 
Icahn also attempted the grand prize of U.S. Steel, launching a hostile takeover for 89% of the industrial giant for $7 billion ($15.1 billion in 2015) in late 1986. snip
So much for heavyweights in the political world supporting The Donald.
