Kasich: I Don’t Think Trump’s ‘Ideological’ on Health Care

‘I don’t think he cares really what the solution is’

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KASICH: "Look, I -- I don’t think -- I don't think he’s ideological on this. I think that, you know, he has political people to try to probably tell him, you know, you need to do this or that. But I don’t -- I don't think he cares really what the solution is. I don’t think he’s -- he's embedded in an ideological program here. The more he’s ideological I think the worst he does. Because this is -- health care is not something that, you know, should be driven — the first and foremost thing on health care is people need to have it. They need to be healthy. They don’t need to go bankrupt if they get sick an we know that if people are healthy they’’re more likely to work than if they’re unhealthy. And so, my sense is that at the end he’ll sign something that will stabilize the markets, make sure that we can then head to a direction of where we can deal with the problems of rising health care, which is really related to one simple thing. I mean, there's number of things, but one simple thing, we practice quantity and not quality. If we practice quality and paid for quality, we’d begin to rein in these driving health care costs along with looking at all the other elements that contribute, for example, the rising cost of pharmaceuticals."

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