The Radical Right
Roy Blunt: It would have been "best" if Medicare and Medicaid never existed
Today on The Eagle 93.9, Roy Blunt shared some pretty incredible thoughts on the problems of public health care.
Government health care programs are so awful, Blunt said, that it would have been "best" if federal government never got "in the health care business" in the first place -- and never created Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration health care, SCHIP or any other program that he believes might "distort the marketplace." Listen:
Blunt's rhetoric about "more choice" and the beauty of the marketplace are standard, though not illuminating in any way. But his suggestion that Medicare and Medicaid should never have even existed is a downright radical proposition.
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