Donald Trump got more media attention over the weekend, with a feature on CBS's
60 Minutes, interviewed by Scott Pelley. In a vain attempt to get some policy specifics out of Trump (and seriously, they're still trying to get policy specifics out of him?), Pelley pushed him on what he'd do about Obamacare and got a response that has conservative healthcare wonk Avik Roy
very frustrated.
Here's the exchange that set off Roy:
Pelley: How do you fix it?
Trump: There's many different ways, by the way. Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, "No, no, the lower 25 percent that can't afford private. But–"
Pelley: Universal health care.
Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now.
Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
Trump: They're going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—
Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Trump: —the government's gonna pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.
That last bit there? Sound familiar? Private plans that people can choose from because the government has created competition among the companies—great companies! Yeah, that's pretty much Obamacare, which has not just Roy pulling out his hair, but the libertarian folks at
Reason as well. Now they really will be having nightmares about Trump.