Trump's 60 Minutes Interview from September of last year, pushing single payer healthcare:
"""Donald Trump: Obamacare's going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at what's going on with premiums where they're up 40, 50, 55 percent.
Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?
Donald Trump: There's many different ways, by the way. Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, "No, no, the lower 25 percent that can't afford private. But-"
Scott Pelley: Universal health care.
Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now.
Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
Donald Trump: They're going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably-
Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Donald Trump: --the government's gonna pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything."""
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...se-on-wealthy/
From a Town Hall in February, with CNN's Anderson Cooper:
"""Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper he likes the mandate established by President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act that everyone must have insurance or pay a fine.
Cooper asked Trump during a town hall forum on Thursday night "If Obamacare is repealed and there's no mandate for everybody to have insurance, what's to -- why would [an] insurance company ... insure somebody who has a pre-existing condition?"
Trump responded, "Well, I like the mandate. OK. So here's where I'm a little bit different. I don't want people dying on the streets, and I say this all the time."""
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/19/tr...mandate-video/
Later, Trump tweeted one of his hundred clarifications he's had to do during the campaign:
"""I was asked about healthcare by Anderson Cooper & have been consistent- I will repeal all of. #ObamaCare, including the mandate, period."""
1:28 PM - 19 Feb 2016
Two weeks later, CNN reports on Trump's website release of his healthcare plan:
"""Trump also called in his health care plan for eliminating the individual mandate, which under Obamacare requires all Americans to have health insurance and which Trump suggested he was in favor of less than two weeks ago.
"I like the mandate. Here's where I'm a little bit different. I don't want people dying in the streets," Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper on February 20 during a televised town hall event.
Trump has taken fire from his fellow Republicans for suggesting that "everybody's got to be covered" and that "the government's gonna pay for it" as he said in a September interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" -- a proclamation his rivals have tried to use against Trump to suggest he is in favor of government-run health care.
Trump's plan Wednesday, though, makes no mention of Trump's calls for every American to be insured, even if the government has to pick up the tab."""
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/02/politi...lth-care-plan/
Trump flip flops back and forth, from demanding single payer in his book (which I hear was a best seller. A great book. The best book next to the Bible.) to now claiming he wants to repeal the mandate and is not for single payer. I think on most of his issues he just flips a coin and whatever it lands on, he goes with that until criticism causes him to "clarify" what he actually means.
Trump is the most inconsistent and indecisive candidate for POTUS I've seen. Don't like his policy? Give him a week or so, it will likely change.
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