Vivek Ramaswamy
Role at the time: Republican candidate for Ohio governor, in a statement from his campaign
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Ramaswamy's campaign says Acton's attacks over his Medicare and Medicaid remark rest on 30 seconds cherry-picked from an 80-minute interview and are blatantly dishonest.
“attacks from Amy Acton, based on a cherry-picked 30 seconds from an 80-minute interview, are blatantly dishonest, but sadly typical of politics practiced by a government insider who is desperate to preserve the status quo.”
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Statehouse News Bureau report on Acton's and Ramaswamy's health care positions. It quotes Ramaswamy's Ezra Klein Show answer and two written statements from his campaign.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case concerns Ramaswamy's 2024 answer that Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes. His campaign does not defend that answer as a policy position. It says Acton's use of it is cherry-picked from a longer interview and blatantly dishonest, which disputes how the remark is characterized.