She has been under attack for fronting a healthcare program similar to Bernie Sanders Medicare-for-All….
Sanders is up front in saying his idea will cost Americans billions in increased taxes….
Which even Democrats are NOT in favour of paying…..
The lag in unveiling a payment plan speaks to the difficult position Warren is in: She can either offer some kind of large tax above her wealth tax on the very rich or be pegged as evasive about a major element of her platform. Both carry political risks.
“The cheapest possible way to make sure that everyone gets health care is Medicare-for-all,” the senator from Massachusetts said at the end of a town hall in Indianola, attended by about 475 people. “What I see, though, is, we need to talk about costs.” Over “the next few weeks,” Warren added, she will offer a proposal for “specifically how we pay for it.”
The Medicare-for-all legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2017 does not lay out how the proposal would be funded. A separate “white paper” proposed some ideas, like a 4 percent “premium” paid by families making more than $29,000 per year.
Sanders has not shied away from telling voters they will have to pay higher taxes under a Medicare-for-all plan. But, he’s said, that cost would be more than offset by other savings….
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