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Requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions... I always believed that once you accept this as a required outcome, you initiate a dependency

• snowwrestler 10y ago
  It's not clear whether Trump even opposes single-payer healthcare. He pushed the repeal of Obamacare pretty hard toward the end of the election when it became apparent that was a winning message. But he has said repeatedly that he does not believe that the U.S. can just abandon people without healthcare. "We have to take care of our people"--he said things like this a number of times. The big question now is how much control Trump will have over his own administration, vs. the established GOP machine in DC. Trump's inexperience with governing means he doesn't know all the tricks and levers for getting what he wants. He's used to just issuing commands to his corporate staff. The executive branch does not work like that. Everyone has their own agendas, and will undercut or sell out the president if they think it will help them.