Like a torpedo it will....
He’s MUCH MORE likely to get my vote if he keeps on talking about dismantling the welfare state. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SSDI, TANF, WIC, SNAP, etc. ALL must be eliminated.
2000 bucks covers my endoscopy and colonoscopy every year for barretts and pre cancerous tumors in intestine.
might not even cover those two.
IF EVERYTHING were being slashed, politician’s salaries, the size of the fed govt, welfare, SNAP and On and On, i would be willing to pay the difference or even sacrifice my health to save the country.
But it wont work out that way. People, middle class, will die as a result.
Of course, he speaks the truth. Medical care is astronomically high exactly BECAUSE it is third-party subsidized.
Another one bites the dust.
“Maybe the fact that Ben Carson is actually a medical professional means he might have an understanding about how the industry works?”
That’s like expecting a mechanic to run a car company.
His other subjects were:
* Closing down the VA
* Discussing how German and world History would have been altered if Jews were armed in the 30's in Germany.
If you have more please contribute, but regardless we owe him a debt of gratitude for speaking the unspeakable or so deemed so by the orthodox apparatchiks...
Carson is on the right track, but why should the government be the paying party? Beyond that $2,000 a year? So he thinks $80k will take care of people’s retirement health care?
There will be interest growth, but it’s not going to grow that much. $150,000 at retirement would probably not cover your health care needs.
Get the government out of it. These unfunded mandates are already the big problem. Put people back to work and let them take care of their own needs with savings accounts.
He may have just picked a wrong battle field.
This will probably go over like Bush’s plans on Social Security reform. It’s the same crowd of older folks for the the dems to scare voter bracket.
Bush still won, but I don’t remember it being a battle he picked in the primaries.
He really should come out for the abolishion of Obama care and a good way to transition away from it for the few that it has actually worked for.
I think their may be a couple of people.
“Hmmmm. Will what Ben Carson just said about Medicare SINK his campaign? “
Worse. It validates what the far leftists have been claiming the Pubs would do to Medicare, and Carson has just made Medicare an issue that ALL Pubs WILL have to address one way or the other.
I can see why the kommie loves having Carson in the race; namely, while Trump is armor-plated and media attacks only bounce off him and ricochet back onto the themselves, loose cannon Ben lobs one cannon ball after another onto trampolines that bounce back and hit himself AND the other Pub candidates.
Would the idea have a snowball’s chance if Carson actually was elected?
The man has some edgy ideas, in regard to 2nd Amendment, etc. But beyond that, he strikes me as someone who’d be easy for the democRATS to roll.
Leni/MinuteGal
Medicare is all seniors have left to get affordable health insurance.
So apparently we’ve entered the “big talk, ain’t ever gonna happen” section of the campaign. With Trump outlawing “happy holidays” yesterday and Carson killing medicare today. It’s an entertaining phase I guess.
I dislike that SS and Medicare are considered entitlements when I have been paying for them all of my adult life. Now, Medicaid and SNAP and so on, yes, I would like there to be something done about them; they are entitlements.
Bad idea.
The Boomers get feisty when you start talking about taking away their welfare.
I like Trump, Carson, and Cruz. Waiting to see how this all plays out as we approach the first primary.
Dr. Ben Carson continues to get my attention with his common sense analyses, and detailed pronouncements. He is looking more and more like a winner!
“Hmmmm. Will what Ben Carson just said about Medicare SINK his campaign?”
Like it or not Ben, in the real world, Medicare is a VERY POPULAR program, right up there with Social Security...and not just for seniors, but also for people who are starting to think about those years, and people with elderly parents.
Saying that you’ll simply give every senior a voucher for $2,000 to run out and buy insurance simply won’t do very well with that crowd...and, in my opinion, pretty much makes him look like an idealist kook...in the eyes of most people - at least that’s how I see it.
Ummm. What about people already on it and retired?