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Ben Carson presidential campaign, 2016/Federal assistance programs

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Ben Carson announced his presidential run on May 3, 2015.[1]



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Presidential candidate
Ben Carson

Profession:
Retired Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Carson on the issues:
TaxesBanking policyGovernment regulationsBudgetsAgricultural subsidiesFederal assistance programsForeign affairsFederalismNatural resourcesHealthcareImmigrationEducationAbortionGay rights

Republican Party Republican candidate:
Donald Trump
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  • Ben Carson released his healthcare reform policy on December 9, 2015. The core of Carson’s platform was the combination of tax-protected “health empowerment accounts” and high-deductible health insurance plans. Additionally, Carson’s plan supported transferable plans across state lines and family members, a fixed contribution for Medicare beneficiaries to select the insurance plan of their choice, and the gradual increase of the eligibility age for Medicare to 70. Carson's plan also called for overhauling Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for the poor, giving users private insurance options, which would be funded through state-run Medicaid programs, and seed funds for their own health empowerment accounts.[2] [3]
  • In an op-ed which appeared in The Washington Times on January 28, 2014, Carson wrote, "As a child, I was eyewitness to people who preferred a sedentary, nonproductive life as long as they could collect public assistance. Others, including my mother, from the exact same environment, worked incessantly to try to improve their own lives and those of their children. My mother worked as a domestic in the homes of wealthy people who were very generous to her since she was dependable, honest and hard-working. They also learned about my brother and me, since my mother would share our stellar report cards with them once we had conquered our academic doldrums. As a result, these very successful people would send us significant monetary incentives to keep up the good work."[4]
  • During an interview with Politico in April 2014, Carson said, "We take the downtrodden in our society and we pat them on the head. We say 'There, there, you poor little thing. I’m gonna give you health care. I’m gonna give you housing subsidies, I’m gonna give you food stamps. You don’t have to worry about anything.' What that has done is create generation upon generation of people who just live that way, waiting for government handouts."[5]
  • In April 2014 Carson said, "By turning over control of the most important thing you have, your health, to the government and to bureaucrats, you have fundamentally changed the power structure of this nation. If you just go back and read the neo-Marxists, you’ll see why getting control of health care was so important to them; it was the only way to make a population dependent."[5]

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