An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders’s health plan
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The Critics of Sanders’s Health Plan Understate Benefits and Overstate Costs
A single-payer system could offer big savings without significantly increasing spending.Â
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The Larger Problems of the Sanders Single Payer Plan
Putting our nation’s health care under federal control would create more problems than it would solve.Â
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Why Sanders’s Single-Payer Plan Would Cost More Than His Campaign Says
By Friedman’s estimate, the Sanders single-payer plan would be underfunded by an average of about $1.1 trillion a year.
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Marco Rubio Is Right: Donald Trump Is a Con Man
From Trump University to the 2016 election, the key to the Donald’s success has always been a gullible public.Â
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Donald Trump and the Twilight of Movement Conservatism
The gurus of the right forged a coalition fueled by rage and wrapped in moralistic principles. Trump is winning by stoking the rage and chucking the rest.
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When Super PACs Go Dark: LLCs Fuel Secret Spending
Super PACs are bound by election laws to disclose their funding sources, but increasingly big donors are routing their money through “shell corporations” to hide their identities.
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Class Will Out
How economic divisions have come to dominate both parties’ primaries.Â
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DNC Lobbyist Money Gives Bernie More Ammo
The Democratic National Committee’s decision to roll back the ban on lobbyist contributions initially imposed by President Barack Obama captures the complicated political money struggle going on between Democratic presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. On the one hand, Clinton may benefit from an influx of lobbyist money to the DNC. Sanders has done […]
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The Labor Prospect: Harry Reid’s Backchannel Turnout Machine in Nevada
Labor unions pump up voter-turnout operations in Nevada, and the AFL-CIO withholds primary endorsement.
