Carson Plan Repeals Obamacare, Raises Medicare Eligibility to 70
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson wants to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 70 as part of a health care plan released Wednesday that would reshape the popular program for the nation's elderly in addition to overhauling Medicaid and repealing President Barack Obama's health care law.
The neurosurgeon who retired to West Palm Beach is set to outline his health care plan for the first time on Wednesday while campaigning in Michigan. An outline provided to The Associated Press by the Carson campaign provided little detail and no estimates of costs and coverage.
His proposal relies largely on tax-sheltered personal accounts to promote patient choice, and foster competition among private insurers, reflecting a belief that patients and doctors can set right much of what they see as wrong with the health care system.
"The best, most effective health care decisions are made at the granular level, between individual patients and doctors," Carson wrote in the proposal. "The more distant the decision-making process from that relationship, the less predictable the outcome will be."
The $3-trillion-a-year U.S. health care system is one of the most complicated parts of the economy, and change does not come easily, as Obama's overhaul has shown. Carson adviser, Texas-based physician Kristin S. Held, said the plan would produce "substantial" savings by cutting government and private health care spending by trillions of dollars, but could not detail the specific numbers.
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