Last I read he had a free market replacement idea for Medicare and Medicaid that made people responsible for their own healthcare.
The American Thinker has a good blog on this.
Exactly, but Trump supporters ignore that and also overlook Trump’s previous support for single-payer healthcare. I guess they suddenly like the prospect of the government overseeing all of our personal health needs.
In fact, Trump is the one GOP candidate that cannot be relied upon to abandon Obamacare (other than Kasich, I suppose.) He’d very likely try to “improve” it instead.
Ben Carson Pretends He Doesn’t Really Want To End Medicare
10/25/15 8:30am
As we already discussed here, 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.
When asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if he really wants to put an end to Medicare, Carson stammered and stuttered his way through the interview and tried to pretend that’s not what he wants to do, even though we all know that would be the end result if you move the funds from one program to the other.
Here’s more from The Hill on Carson’s train wreck of an interview on Fox: Ben Carson says he won’t end Medicare:
Republican Ben Carson on Sunday rejected the notion that he will end Medicare if he is elected president.
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Carson if his plan was to end the program, which serves 49 million senior citizens.
“That’s completely false, Carson said. “That’s a narrative someone’s putting out there to scare people.”
Carson said the program he’s outlined uses health savings accounts starting from the time a person is born until their death to largely eliminate the needs for people to be dependent on government programs.
“I would never get rid of the programs,” he said. “I would provide people with an alternative and I think they will see the alternative we’re going to outline is so much better than anything else.”
Wallace pushed Carson on what appeared to be a policy change, asking him if people will have a choice between health savings accounts and the traditional Medicare
“I do not believe in imposing things on people,” Carson said. “I believe in presenting things that are so attractive that people will quickly migrate to them.”
It’s pretty bad when even a host on Fox isn’t buying the B.S. you’re shoveling. Wallace pushed and pushed Carson on where the money would come from for his program, and Carson either doesn’t even understand what his own health care proposal would do, or he’s just lying through his teeth.
If you don’t get how that will play out in the general, I can’t help you.