Ben Carson Suggests Gov’t Should Pay For Medical School

STEPHANOPOULOS: "Let’s turn now to some domestic policy. I was struck by reading your previous book, “America The Beautiful,” of things that you wrote there that sound a little bit more like Bernie Sanders than some of your Republican rivals. In that book, you wrote about taking the positive aspects of socialism and actually implementing them within capitalism. What did you mean by that?"
CARSON: "Well, I meant one of the things that happens, for instance, in Europe, for medical school, is that you don’t have to pay for it. And as a result, they don’t have the skew that we have here. A lot of people, when they finish medical school, they’re hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. And instead of, you know, doing what they may have wanted to do, which was maybe be a private — a primary care doctor, they decide that I’d better become a, you know, one of the specialists that makes a lot more money so I can pay this money back. That’s not an issue in Europe and they don’t have the kind of primary care deficit that we have."