Trump was asked by Dr. Oz about healthcare coverage for people who ‘fall through the cracks’. I assume this means people who don’t qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford private health insurance.







Trump’s answer? Expand Medicaid:

BLOOMBERG – Speaking on “The Dr. Oz Show,” Trump said Medicaid, the joint federal-state program for the poor, should be used to help provide health coverage for those who can’t afford to buy plans from private health insurers. The show was taped Wednesday and aired Thursday. “We have to help them through the Medicaid system,” Trump told Mehmet Oz, the host of a popular daytime television show and a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center. “People have said that’s not the right thing to say. But there is a fairly large percentage who can’t afford it.”

But his campaign says Trump didn’t propose an expansion:

A Trump spokesman said that Trump had not proposed an expansion of Medicaid. “Mr. Trump has been consistent on this issue since he announced his campaign — he believes that Medicaid should be used as a safety net for the poor to ensure that nobody in America falls through the cracks,” Jason Miller, a Trump campaign spokesman, said in an e-mail.

Uh, yeah it sounded like he did to me. You can watch for yourself and decide. Below is the video of his entire answer on replacing Obamacare and expanding Medicaid (which for the most part is just a bunch of Trump adjectives and very little substance like you’d expect):