Donald Trump: Get Rid of the Lines Around the States

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Donald Trump and Marco Rubio had a healthy exchange about eliminating "lines around the states" at last night's GOP debate.

DONALD TRUMP: What we need...look, the insurance companies take care of the politicians. The insurance companies get what they want. We should have gotten rid of the lines around each state so we could have real competition. We thought that was gone. We thought those lines were going to be gone and something happened at the last moment where Obamacare got approved and all of that was thrown out the window. The reason is some of the people in the audience are insurance people and insurance lobbyists and special interests. They got--I'm not going to point to these gentleman. Of course, they're part of the problem, other than Ben, in all fairness, and actually, the governor too. Let's just talk about these two, okay? Because I don't think the governor had too much to do with this. But we should have gotten rid of the borders, we should have gotten rid of the lines around the state so there's great competition. The insurance companies are making a fortune on every single thing they do. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm the only one in either party self-funding my campaign. I'm going to do what's right. We have to get rid of the lines around the states so that there's serious, serious competition. And you're going to see--excuse me--then you're going to see pre-existing conditions and everything else be part of it, but the price will be down and the insurance companies can pay. Right now, they're making a fortune.

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MARCO RUBIO: Here is what you didn't hear in that answer. And this is an important, guys. This is an important thing. What is your plan? I understand the lines around the state, whatever that means. This is not a game where you draw maps.

TRUMP: You don't know what it means. That is the problem.

RUBIO: What is your plan on health care? You don't have a plan.

TRUMP: You know, I watched him melt down two weeks ago with Chris Christie. I got to tell you...the biggest problem he's got is he really doesn't know about the lines. The biggest thing we've got, and the reason we've got no competition, is because we have lines around the state, and you have essentially...

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RUBIO: So, that's the only part of the plan? Just the lines...interstate competition?

TRUMP: The nice part about the plan..you'll have many different plans. You'll have competition, you'll have so many different plans.

RUBIO: Now he's repeating himself.

(Crowd goes wild)

TRUMP: Talk about repeating? I watched him repeat himself five times four weeks ago.

RUBIO: I saw you repeat yourself five times five seconds ago.



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