Donald Trump warned voters not to elect Vice-President Kamala Harris in November because she’ll make sure that everyone gets healthcare.
During a rambling press conference on Thursday at his Bedminster golf club, Trump claims Harris wants to force everyone into an “inferior socialist government-run health care systems with rationing and deadly wait times, while massively raising your taxes,” according to a clip shared by Mediaite.
“She wants to take away your private health care,” Trump continued. “There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private health care…….They worked hard to make money and they want to do it under her. You’re not going to have private health care plans anymore.”
“You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system,” he added. “It’s a communist system. You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.”
Harris is yet to release her healthcare plan during the presidential campaign. But, she previously supported ‘Medicare for All’.
While seeking the Democratic party nomination for president in 2019, Harris released a healthcare plan putting the country on track for a government-backed health insurance over 10 years but would not totally eliminate private health insurance, according to CBS News.
Harris has since distanced herself from these positions.
“Harris will not push for single-payer government health insurance as president,” a campaign official told CBS. “The vice president plans to work on bringing down health care prices by other means, including the administration’s current efforts to have Medicare negotiate with drug manufacturers to bring down the costs of some drugs.”
Trump has also changed his stance on healthcare over the years.
In the late 90s, Trump told Larry King: “I believe in universal healthcare. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.”
He also praised Canada’s single-payer system in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, arguing that it is cost efficiency and results in Canadians living longer than Americans, according to Mediaite.
