Angle: ‘Getting Out Of Medicare And Social Security Is Not Up For Grabs’

Former Nevada legislator Sharron Angle (R)
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In an interview from three weeks before the Nevada Republican primary, Sharron Angle made it clear that getting rid of Medicare and Social Security is a non-negotiable issue for her.

Greg Sargent reports that in a radio interview with a local Nevada NPR affiliate on May 19, Angle talked about how the VA and Medicare were not covering medications for her father — and she suggested that they shouldn’t, “not if you’re working towards a privatized system.”

Going on in the interview, Angle talks about how as a Senator she would work with other legislators to formulate a proper solution for her idea, haggling over the details and implementation of privatization without giving up on the main idea itself: “The idea of privatizing and getting out of Medicare and Social Security is not up for grabs.”

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