Trump Says He’d Use Medicaid to Expand Insurance Coverage
- Candidate also says birth control should be non-prescription
- Trump spokesman says candidate wouldn’t expand Medicaid
A customer exits a CVS Health Corp. pharmacy in La Vista, Nebraska, on April 30, 2016.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that as president he would use Medicaid to cover poor people who can’t afford private health insurance, and make birth control available without a prescription.
The comments appeared to differ both with what some Republicans have proposed in the past, and -- in the case of Medicaid -- aspects of Trump’s own policy proposals on his website. Republicans generally opposed the expansion of Medicaid to higher income levels under Obamacare, for example.