Trump's previous promises on health care
By Dylan Stafford, CNN
Updated 8:57 AM ET, Sat June 24, 2017
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Promise: Health care for all
Trump repeatedly promised that he would cover all Americans when given the chance to repeal and replace Obamacare. He stated that coverage for everyone was "just human decency" back in February of 2016.
By then, he had already promised universal coverage. When he was a presidential
candidate in 2015, Trump told CBS's Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes that "everybody's got to be covered." He conceded that it may be an "un-Republican" thing to say, but he wanted to ensure that everyone had quality health care.
"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not," Trump said. He added: "The government's gonna pay for it."
More recently, as president-elect, Trump reiterated his support for the idea in January.
"We're going to have insurance for everybody," he said in an interview with The Washington Post.
"There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
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