Trump Proposes Replacing Obamacare with Government-Funded Universal Healthcare – Ben Swann’s Truth In Media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday\u2019s episode of 60 Minutes on CBS, Donald Trump said that \u201cObamacare is a disaster\u201d and that he plans to repeal it and replace it with a government-funded universal healthcare plan. During the lengthy interview, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley asked billionaire real estate mogul and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump his position on healthcare reform. \u201cObamacare\u2019s going to be repealed and replaced. Obamacare is a disaster if you look at what\u2019s going on with premiums where they\u2019re up 40, 50, 55 percent,\u201d replied Trump. Pelley then pressed him to offer his own specific plan for fixing the U.S. healthcare system. Trump began explaining, \u201cThere\u2019s many different ways, by the way. Everybody\u2019s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, \u2018No, no, the lower 25 percent that can\u2019t afford private.\u2019 But\u2026\u201d Pelley then interrupted, noting that Trump was describing a universal healthcare plan. Trump continued, \u201cI am going to take care of everybody. I don\u2019t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody\u2019s going to be taken care of much better than they\u2019re taken care of now.\u201d The real estate billionaire then explained that he \u201cwould […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1836],"class_list":["post-11171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}