Mike Huckabee's Healthcare Vision

The cure is cheaper than the care.

by Rod D. Martin
May 5, 2015

I have known Mike Huckabee for many years, disagreed with him on a thing or two, agreed with him on many other things, been employed by him, employed his oldest child (one of my dearest friends), loved his whole family, respected him greatly.

Today was a new high.

As you know, the former Governor announced his second run for President today. I will leave it to the pundits to cover all the obvious stuff. Here's what they'll probably gloss over (at best):

Real health care reform is gonna focus on prevention and cures, rather than costly intervention. Because hope comes from finding cures for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.
 
(APPLAUSE)
 
The same way that we once lined up at the courthouse in the 1950s and took our vaccines and eradicated polio. Cures, real cures, could give real hope to families who hear a dreaded diagnosis and are sentenced to a slow and agonizing death. Alzheimer's disease alone will cost well over $1 trillion by the year 205…