When Donald Trump discussions about health care, he sounds as if he needs to do something different from the rest of the Republican field. But his health care policy, released on the day of Wednesday night, looks a lot like what his competitors have already presented.
On the stump, Mr. Trump has tended to buck Republican anti-Obamacare orthodoxy. He has always called for repealing the health law, which he explains as a bureaucratic disaster and an financial drag. But he has repeatedly depicted enthusiasm for some of its concepts and ambitions.
He has admired single-payer health care systems in the country Canada and Scotland. He has claimed that the government must take care of the lowest-income Americans. He has endorsed a provision of the law that stops insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with prior sicknesses. He mostly repeats that the USA requires a system to stop people from dying in the streets.
The impression he offers is that the US ought to help give health insurance to the public, merely in a less cumbersome, costly way. “We have to take care of persons in this country,” he said at last week’s Republican debate, adding that he did not care if his compassionate health care proposals lost him the election.
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