Step two, elide over all the details of how to implement a socialized system that addresses the size and diversity of American health care, which is radically different than the challenges faced by much smaller and more homogeneous European countries with supposedly superior care.
For a long time now, Sanders has owed us an actually detailed explanation for how our health care is going to get cheaper under "Medicare for all," and it hasn't been forthcoming.
The Associated Press summed up a study done by the Mercatus Center last year this way, "Sen. Bernie Sanders's 'Medicare for all' plan would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes." Of course, Bernie Bros would protest that the Mercatus Center is a libertarian think tank not predisposed to give Sanders's plan a fair shake.
Missing were more than a few sentences about how the proposal would change the health care system in the United States.
Here are some things it doesn't say: What would the new system pay doctors and hospitals for their services? How would it decide which medical treatments it should and shouldn't cover? What strategies would it use to contain health care costs and keep the system affordable? Who would make the decisions, big and small, about how the program would work?
His recently proposed "Medicare for all" legislation doesn't much improve on prior attempts to flesh out how health care will be administered in a cost-effective manner, even as it's full of tax hike proposals such as 70 percent marginal tax rates on income over $10 million, 77 percent estate taxes on the rich, and taxes on big banks.
In the end, Sanders doesn't have a health care plan, so much as a branding strategy for one.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/16/at-fox-town-hall-bernie-sanders-still-cant-explain-how-hes-paying-for-medicare-for-all/
For a long time now, Sanders has owed us an actually detailed explanation for how our health care is going to get cheaper under "Medicare for all," and it hasn't been forthcoming.
The Associated Press summed up a study done by the Mercatus Center last year this way, "Sen. Bernie Sanders's 'Medicare for all' plan would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes." Of course, Bernie Bros would protest that the Mercatus Center is a libertarian think tank not predisposed to give Sanders's plan a fair shake.
Missing were more than a few sentences about how the proposal would change the health care system in the United States.
Here are some things it doesn't say: What would the new system pay doctors and hospitals for their services? How would it decide which medical treatments it should and shouldn't cover? What strategies would it use to contain health care costs and keep the system affordable? Who would make the decisions, big and small, about how the program would work?
His recently proposed "Medicare for all" legislation doesn't much improve on prior attempts to flesh out how health care will be administered in a cost-effective manner, even as it's full of tax hike proposals such as 70 percent marginal tax rates on income over $10 million, 77 percent estate taxes on the rich, and taxes on big banks.
In the end, Sanders doesn't have a health care plan, so much as a branding strategy for one.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/16/at-fox-town-hall-bernie-sanders-still-cant-explain-how-hes-paying-for-medicare-for-all/
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