Sen. Bernie Sanders knows there’s an uphill challenge convincing Americans they could afford a government-run health insurance program, so with the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders knows it’s an uphill challenge to convince Americans they can afford a government-run health-insurance program.
A conservative group estimated Medicare for All would cost about $33 trillion over a decade. The Sanders camp didn’t come up with its own estimate but said the estimate from the Mercatus Group is inflated. The Congressional Budget Office has not yet scored Sanders’s legislation.He suggests a tax both on the employee and employer sides.
Other ideas include closing a loophole that allows self-employed people to set up S corporations and avoid paying into Social Security and Medicare; imposing a fee on big banks; ending health tax expenditures; and “repealing corporate accounting gimmicks.”
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