We now know more about the foolhardy rush to endorse Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All bill
Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Im Most of the Democratic presidential candidates have spent the last several months attempting to wriggle free of a trap they set for themselves two and a half years ago, when the leading contenders jumped aboard Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan. Politico has a story detailing how this bizarre debacle came out.
What would be extraordinarily difficult would be moving the 150 million Americans already covered by employer insurance onto a public plan. It would require, first, transferring the cost of their insurance off the books of their employers, which is largely invisible, and onto the federal budget, requiring major tax hikes, It would also require persuading them that they’d be better off with a public insurance plan than their current coverage.
Politico’s reporting fills in some of the details that explain the foolhardy rush to endorse the Sanders bill, which proposed to fold the entire health-care system into Medicare, without explaining any of the tradeoffs that had made such an undertaking impossible. Two unnamed policy aides say they knew at the time the bill was not a finished product.
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