Dr. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and Fox News contributor, on Saturday openly admitted that he’s pretty happy about the Veterans Affairs scandal.
“I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider,” Carson said on Fox News, using the veterans hospital backlogs to criticize Obamacare. “And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?”
“We need seriousness here rather than just political speak,” he said, calling on lawmakers to address healthcare issues.
Watch the video via Media Matters:
This man is fundamentally dishonest. No wonder conservatives love him.
First of all, Obamacare and the VA are two fundamentally different programs. The VA is a single payer system, Obamacare is a market based system.
If Republicans really want to get to the bottom of what’s wrong with the VA, they can start with the fact that they started two stupid wars and then refused to provide adequate funding for a VA system that is predictably being overwhelmed with sick veterans.
Also, Ben Carson is a f***king moron.
Another one for my, “If a Democrat had said that…!” file.
Really, Dr. Carson? You regard the suffering and frustration of hundreds of thousands of veterans as a gift from God? Thinly veiled by your concern-trolling, that’s what you’re really saying–yippee, a real scandal, FINALLY! And it is a scandal, but one that is caused in large part by underfunding the Veterans Administration. If you’re going to send people to war to get blown up, you need to fund the care of their broken bodies and minds that are the aftermath.
Bennie was referring to HIS god, CTHULHU.