Kasich: At the End Trump Will ‘Sign Something That Will Stabilize’ Health Care Markets

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) followed up on his New York Times op-ed published a day earlier about the “way forward” on health care.

Kasich told host Joe Scarborough that he expected President Donald Trump to ultimately sign something that would “stabilize” the health care markets.

“Look, I don’t think he’s ideological on this,” Kasich said. “I think he has political people that try to probably tell him you need to do this or that. But I don’t think he cares really what the solution is. I don’t think he’s embedded in some ideological program here. The more he’s ideological, I think, the worse he does. Because this is health care is not something that should be driven — the first and foremost thing on health care is that people need to have it. They need to be healthy; they don’t need to go bankrupt if they get sick. And we know if people are healthy they’re more likely to work than if they are 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,” he added. “There is a 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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