At Donald Trump's latest hotel ad masquerading as a campaign event, he flubbed what should have been a simple thing, attacking Obamacare from the standpoint of an employer. But it's Trump. He neither understands his business nor how health insurance works.
"And I can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare. You folks, this is another group. Is that a correct statement?" he said, gesturing to the crowd. "You look at what they're going through with their health care is horrible because of Obamacare. So we'll repeal it and replace it. But this is about jobs. And we have thousands of employees in Florida."
Moments later, Trump appeared to contradict himself, stating that his employees don't have to deal with Obamacare exchanges because his corporation provides them with healthcare coverage. "These are just amazing people," Trump said. "This is what jobs do. Jobs just make lives and they make people and they make families and they’re not worried about their health care because we take great care of people." […]
Following just behind Trump, David Feder, the general manager for Trump National Doral Miami resort, further clarified to reporters that "very few" employees would have reason to buy Obamacare policies because "95 percent" are provided healthcare, which is a large portion of their operating costs.
Because Trump doesn't need one more bad headline about how he doesn't even provide healthcare coverage to his employees. But he had a little time to recover, appearing on Fox News shortly after the appearance and claiming, in his usual engaged and policy-deft manner, "I don't use much Obamacare, I must be honest with you, because it is so bad for the people and they can't afford it."
"I don't use much Obamacare." I guess he has people to figure out this kind of stuff for him, but shouldn't he have made just a little bit of an effort to figure out how stuff works since he's, like, running for president?
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