Its a distant memory now, butDonald Trumppublicly supported single-payer health care.
Vice PresidentKamala Harrisdid, too.
Neither candidate backs the idea now.
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She wants to take away your private health care.
None of this is true.
She has since backed away from this idea.
Our life expectancy is lower; infant, maternal, and avoidable deaths are all higher.
Wait times in the U.S.are already long not the absolute worst among wealthy countries, but poor nonetheless.
Trump reiterated at the end of his health care rant that Harris could change her position.
Shes changed on everything, he said.
Years ago, he was a full-blown proponent of single-payer health care.
If you cant take care of your sick in the country, forget it, its all over.
I mean, its no good.
So Im very liberal when it comes to health care, Trumptold Larry King in 1999.
I believe in universal health care.
I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.
He added that health care should be considered an entitlement.
As far as single payer, it works in Canada, he said.
It works incredibly well in Scotland.
It could have worked in a different age.
