Forbes October 17, 2019
In a new report, my Urban Institute colleagues have estimated that a full-blown Medicare for All plan would increase federal government healthcare spending by a net of $32 trillion over the next decade.
If you love the idea of a universal single-payer government health insurance program, you have to explain how you would finance it. And that means you must, in some way, confront a complex series of trade-offs—many inextricably tied up in the tax code.
In Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was asked repeatedly how she’d pay for Medicare for All. And each time she dodged the question.
A bank shot
Shifting from today’s mix of private and public health insurance to a...
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