And yes, it's bad when you claim he knows nothing but how to bill, and yes it was a really bad way to start your day.
For some reason there's a lot of folks who can't understand this....they've bought into so many liberal templates on health care that they don't even have the ability to see the only conservative way to address this - the only way to address "price" is to address "cost" - and the only way to do that is to remove this expensive wall of bureaucratic insanity that exists between the recipient and the payor. The best way to do that is to use insurance for what it was intended, as catastrophic coverage.
He's explained nothing. Give folks $2000 and let them buy insurance off that and fund an HSA. So how much is two grand a person going to cost the government? And what kind of coverage will they be able to afford? And what happens to them if their account is drained but they're still sick? Carson has spent his entire life looking at healthcare as a money-maker for him. He has no concept of what the average person deals with.