Modern Healthcare August 4, 2018
You’d think the $16 trillion boost in business revenue from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health insurance plan would get more love from conservatives. The potential windfall over the next decade would be 10 times larger than the Trump tax cut.
Yet a new conservative white paper attacking Medicare for All because of its substantial cost to taxpayers failed to even mention that corporate profits could rise exponentially under the plan. How? By eliminating all company payments for private health insurance.
Nor did the Koch brothers-funded Mercatus Center paper mention the $5 trillion boost in household income under Sanders’ version of single payer. That’s how much out-of-pocket spending would go down in a government-only plan without deductibles, coinsurance and co-payments.
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