It’s a distant memory now, but Donald Trump publicly supported single-payer health care. Vice President Kamala Harris did, too. Neither candidate backs the idea now.
This easily accessible history didn’t stop Trump from attacking Harris on Thursday as if she still supports single-payer — with the former president arguing that it would be bad to do so. During a rambling press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said of Harris: “She cosponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 [million] Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government run health care systems with rationing and deadly wait times, while massively raising your taxes. She wants to take away your private health care.
” “It’s the best health care in the world,” he continued, adding: “You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system ...
You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.” None of this is true. Harris did previously support eliminating private health insurance in favor of enacting “Medicare for All,” or a universal health insurance program.
She has since backed away from this idea. While Harris has not offered her health care plan yet, her spokesperson recently told NBC News , “The VP will not push single payer as president.” The United States’ health care system is exceptional, but not because it provides the best care in the world.
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