"As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland." - Donald J. Trump, 2015.
Donald Trump in his book The America We Deserve:
We must have universal healthcare...I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses...
Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork..
The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
Donald Trump on Larry King the first time he ran for President:
I'm quite liberal, and getting much more liberal, on health care and other things. What's the purpose of a country if you're not gonna have defense and health care? If you canāt take care of your sick in the country, forget it, itās all over. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal healthcare.