Rand Paul & the $2,000 Medicare deductible: Mostly True

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Lexington Herald-Leader

Paul now says he was only suggesting a "possible answer" to sustain Medicare. "I threw out a possible answer, but I immediately said in all those speeches that it wouldn't work," Paul said Wednesday on WVLK-AM's Sue Wylie Show.

In September 2009, however, Paul said during a town hall meeting that he planned to push the idea of a higher deductible despite a possible political backlash.

"A $2,000 Medicare deductible would solve a huge amount of problems," Paul said at one point during the meeting. "The hard part is, how do you present this on national TV? What's going to happen to me in a statewide race if I tell people I think the Medicare deductible is going to be higher? Am I going to be hooted out of the room?

"I'm willing to take a risk because I think it's the right thing to do" because the other option is a publicly funded health care system like Canada's, he said.

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1. OOOOH, a system like Canada's. Booga! Booga! Booga!

The horror of every citizen getting medical care when they need it.