Elizabeth Warren keeps lying through her teeth about 'Medicare for all'
by Tiana Lowe
| July 30, 2019 09:22 PM
Elizabeth Warren lacks the stones to dominate the left lane of the Democratic presidential primaries. We know this because tonight, at the Detroit debate, she equivocated on whether her "Medicare for all" plan would raise taxes on the middle class. At least Bernie Sanders, the original socialist of the Senate, was willing to admit it.
The middle class would pay "less out of pocket," Warren asserted, contradicting every financial evaluation of a plan that would overturn the employer-sponsored, private health insurance plans of 150 million Americans and replace it with a Medicare package featuring benefits far more generous than the public system in its existing form.
Seeing as "Medicare for all" would cost at least $32.6 trillion — and that's generously assuming that it could continue to pay an average reimbursement rate 40% lower than that of current private health insurance rates that subsidize public plans — Warren's insistence that her plan would only raise taxes on billionaires and corporations seems to be an overt lie.
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