nic34
10-27-2015, 10:11 AM
Yet another GOPER that can't describe what they would replace Medicare and Medicaid with, except he'd just keep it. And he can change his mind anytime he wants because he's not a politician.
Ben Carson Would Reshape, Not Eliminate, Medicare and Medicaid
Mr. Carson said he wanted to make health savings accounts available to all Americans and to fund them at least in part by diverting government dollars now being spent on Medicaid, the government program for low-income Americans, and Medicare, the insurance program for older Americans.
“Using health savings accounts starting from the time you are born until the time you die largely eliminates the need for people to be dependent on government programs like that,” Mr. Carson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He said it is “completely false” to say he would eliminate the programs.
“That’s a narrative that somebody is putting out there to scare people,” Mr. Carson said. If someone prefers the current government programs to the health-savings-account approach, “I’m not going to deny you the privilege of doing that,” he added.
Mr. Carson made similar comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
In both the Fox and NBC interviews, Mr. Carson proposed funding health savings accounts for poor people by reallocating much of the nearly $500 billion Medicaid budget and giving each of the 80 million Medicaid recipients $5,000 to spend on health care and catastrophic health-insurance coverage.
(I wonder if that insurance would be mandatory?)
Both NBC’s Chuck Todd and Fox’s Chris Wallace pressed Mr. Carson on his previous proposal to fund individuals’ health-savings accounts with annual, $2,000 payments from the government.
“No, that’s the old plan. That’s been gone for several months now,” Mr. Carson said on Fox.
“I’m not a politician,” he said. “So I don’t say that, because I thought this a while ago before I had an opportunity to talk to a lot of economists and various people and cost it out, that I can’t change my mind.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/10/25/ben-carson-would-reshape-not-eliminate-medicare-and-medicaid/
GOP presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson told Politico that he wants to replace Medicare and Medicaid with cradle-to-grave health savings accounts.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/ben-carson-pretends-he-really-doesnt
And this guy is leading the pack?
Ben Carson Would Reshape, Not Eliminate, Medicare and Medicaid
Mr. Carson said he wanted to make health savings accounts available to all Americans and to fund them at least in part by diverting government dollars now being spent on Medicaid, the government program for low-income Americans, and Medicare, the insurance program for older Americans.
“Using health savings accounts starting from the time you are born until the time you die largely eliminates the need for people to be dependent on government programs like that,” Mr. Carson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He said it is “completely false” to say he would eliminate the programs.
“That’s a narrative that somebody is putting out there to scare people,” Mr. Carson said. If someone prefers the current government programs to the health-savings-account approach, “I’m not going to deny you the privilege of doing that,” he added.
Mr. Carson made similar comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
In both the Fox and NBC interviews, Mr. Carson proposed funding health savings accounts for poor people by reallocating much of the nearly $500 billion Medicaid budget and giving each of the 80 million Medicaid recipients $5,000 to spend on health care and catastrophic health-insurance coverage.
(I wonder if that insurance would be mandatory?)
Both NBC’s Chuck Todd and Fox’s Chris Wallace pressed Mr. Carson on his previous proposal to fund individuals’ health-savings accounts with annual, $2,000 payments from the government.
“No, that’s the old plan. That’s been gone for several months now,” Mr. Carson said on Fox.
“I’m not a politician,” he said. “So I don’t say that, because I thought this a while ago before I had an opportunity to talk to a lot of economists and various people and cost it out, that I can’t change my mind.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/10/25/ben-carson-would-reshape-not-eliminate-medicare-and-medicaid/
GOP presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson told Politico that he wants to replace Medicare and Medicaid with cradle-to-grave health savings accounts.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/ben-carson-pretends-he-really-doesnt
And this guy is leading the pack?