The new plan would still repeal Obamacare, but apparently not do away with Medicare and Medicaid, the big government health insurance programs that have been around since the 1960s. In previous statements, Mr. Carson has said he’d like to scrap them both as wasteful and inferior to his idea of a lifetime $2,000-per-year health care allowance for every American. On Thursday, Kyle Cheney and Jason Millman at Politico described that plan, including critical voices from Republican health policy analysts, who worried that ending the popular Medicaid and Medicare programs would be both politically and practically problematic.
"No, that -- that’s the old plan. That’s been gone for several months now," Mr. Carson told Mr. Wallace on Sunday, adding that he’d recently consulted with "a lot of economists and various people" who helped him shape his new plan.
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