If the presidential candidate wants to avoid middle-class tax increases, she should vow to drastically push down health care provider prices.
Medicare
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How Elizabeth Warren Can Address the Medicare for All Question
Today on TAP: A focus on taxes tells only half the story
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The Medicare for All Cost Debate Is Extremely Dishonest
Biden and Buttigieg get to avoid the cost debate, though their own proposals, if successful, will almost surely cost as much as Sanders’s.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Closer Look at Nancy Pelosi’s Plan for Lower Drug Prices
The bill, H.R. 3, has gotten considerably stronger from its initial concept, but questions remain.
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Steve Ricchetti, Top Biden Campaign Aide, Was a Health-Care Lobbyist
The vice president’s former chief of staff once represented hospitals and drug companies. Now he is part of a campaign that is attacking Medicare for All.
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The Best Part of Medicare for All That You Haven’t Heard About
Hint: It’s immensely more cost-effective than private insurance or even the Affordable Care Act.