She's a very strong communist. Lean. You're all going to be thrown into a communist system. It's a communist system. You're going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care. Donald Trump is now officially running on threatening people with a good time. [00:00:16] Look, he knows that millions of Americans, like, desperately need health care. And the way that he scares them is to say that you're all going to have health care. Okay, clearly a political genius and a stable genius. But anyway, it's crazy to declare that Kamala Harris in general is [00:00:31] a communist, or that she, in particular on health care is going to function as some sort of communist. And so although Harris has previously supported Medicare for all, she has since distanced herself from the idea, and a spokesperson recently confirmed to NBC news that she will not push [00:00:47] single payer as president. And so what do you know? Donald Trump has told his first lie of the campaign, I guess. But the interesting thing she's not going to be pushing for single payer health care. Do you know who did push for single payer health care for literally decades. [00:01:04] Donald Trump actually, back in 1999, Trump told Larry King that health care should be considered, quote, an entitlement and said, I believe in universal health care, which is pretty specific. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better. He praised Canada's single payer system in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, [00:01:24] citing its cost efficiency and the longer, healthier lives of Canadians compared to Americans, which, praising Canada's single payer health care system, seems like the sort of thing that would anger the right. But in defense of Donald Trump, that was in one of his books. And so he probably had nothing to do with it whatsoever. [00:01:40] But he's made a lot of statements like this in May 2017. So this isn't just decades ago, he told Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister of Australia, that, quote, you have better health care than we do. They have a single payer system. In January of 2017, he said, we're going to have insurance for everybody. [00:01:58] In September of 2015, he said, everybody's got to be covered. I'm going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not, because coming out in support of single payer health care as a Republican could cost him votes. But I am going to take care of everybody, not the private health [00:02:13] insurance industry will I will do it. And then in 2000, to go back again, he says. I'm a conservative on most issues, but a liberal on health. We must take care of our own. We must have universal health care. And so look, obviously he's turned against that now. [00:02:30] And, you know, he has said that he wants to kill the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something. We don't know what. As I sort of joked about earlier, he promised a health care plan in two weeks. And you can see in this opinion piece from the Washington Post, it's been two [00:02:46] weeks and so we'll probably know soon. Sorry, that's actually a headline from 2020. And so it's been four years and two weeks since he told us what he's going to do on like a minor policy area, like health care after he's already run for years [00:03:03] on killing the system we have right now. And so I understand why he would want to fear monger around Kamala Harris. He apparently doesn't have any plan on this. - Hey, don't scroll away. - Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you [00:03:18] to lend your support to TYT. You power our honest reporting. You do it at t.com/team and we love you for it. So surprising because one of the first things he said when he was president is they were having meetings about how to replace Obamacare and what to replace it with. [00:03:34] You'll be shocked to find out they never came up with a plan to replace Obamacare. And he came out and said nobody knew that health care was this complicated. Yeah. All right, brother. Yeah, we all knew. So he said, if you have universal health care in that clip, you're a communist. [00:03:50] Well, I didn't know that literally every developed nation on earth other than us are apparently communists. So Germany, UK, you just name Norway, Japan, all communist. [00:04:05] Okay, so no, everyone has universal health care except us, even though we're the richest nation on Earth. On average, it costs half of what it costs here and it delivers better results. They have higher life expectancy and better health in those countries than we do. [00:04:22] We're the lone country that has corporate rule that dominates so badly that we don't. We're the only ones that don't have universal health care. The reason why Trump was saying back in 99 and 2000, well, obviously we should have universal health care is because at that point, [00:04:37] we had not already lived for several decades under corporate mainstream media propaganda. Since 2000, they've done about 24 years of are you going to pay for that? How are you going to pay for that? It's so expensive. So it's not just Fox News calling it communist. [00:04:54] CNN and oftentimes MSNBC will scare the living crap out of anyone that ever proposes universal health care. When Bernie did it in the primaries, they're like, oh. Socialist, communist, how are you going to pay for it? It costs half as much. I'm going to pay for it in half. [00:05:10] Twice. Half. Half the money. Left, right? So everyone in mainstream media has been a giant liar about this. That's why Donald Trump can say something as preposterous as universal health care is communist, and it doesn't seem as jarring to people, because that's what Jake Tapper [00:05:27] has been saying for the last 20 years. To pick one guy. All right. - Maz. - Yeah, it's amazing how he has. He was and continues to say, I've got a better plan for everything. So his whole idea with trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act the first time was we're going to in two weeks, we'll have a better plan. [00:05:43] It'll be better. It'll be fantastic. And of course, as you said, he never had a plan similar to him. You know, when he got out of the Iran Iran deal, I'll have a better deal in two weeks. Nothing happened after that. Similar to him saying he's going to take care of immigration and build a wall. Nothing happened. [00:05:59] And so they don't have you know, what it is. It's a it's a culture of complaining and saying, this is bad, this is wrong. This is expensive and really not having any solutions. And to your guys's point as well, what's bad about having health care for our country. [00:06:15] They've really done a great job of convincing a portion of the country that can't afford health care, that health care is bad for them, because if they get health care, then they're going to be communists and the world is going to go to hell, and they're going to come after your guns and they're going to come after your [00:06:30] stoves, and they're going to come after everything that that you stand up for, that God forbid you're able to go to a doctor and not have to pay thousands of dollars out of your pocket for health care. So it's the most ridiculous thing in the world. And, and unfortunately, again, there is a portion of the population [00:06:47] that believes this. And to your point, the the corporate media has done a good job of making this seem like an actual thing. They have no plans. They have no actual better solution for any of this. In a nuanced world, they would say, look, the Affordable Care Act isn't perfect. Let's find ways of improving it. [00:07:04] But they have to go and say, we need to get rid of it. Obamacare. We've got to get rid of it. I'm going to come up with something better. He's not going to come up with something better. And, and he makes comments like this. The guy has nothing to offer. He's got? Absolutely. I mean, all you got to do is watch two minutes of this [00:07:19] or listen to two minutes of his interview with Elon Musk or whatever it is. You realize going back to the beginning of this program, all he's got are personal attacks. He's got nothing else. And, you know, hopefully it'll continue to reflect in his numbers as it goes down. Kind of like his truth. Social media numbers continue to go down. [00:07:37] Yeah 100% super. Last thing is this is great politics by Kamala Harris because look at this. 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