Since we're going to end up having this argument at some point, I'm never going to stop making the following points about "Medicare for All:"
Considering the lengths to which Democrats went in order to falsely claim that tax reform was a tax increase on the middle class (it was the opposite), I'm not sure how they intend to convince tens of millions of Americans to pony up huge new sums of money to Uncle Sam to fund an unaccountable, abuse-riddled, innovation-crushing, bureaucrat-administered system. The feds can't even pull this off for veterans, a sliver of the population whose care we all agree should be stellar. Liberals want to take the VA mess and inflict it upon more than 300 million people.
Dozens of Congressional Democrats: We Demand a $32,000,000,000,000 Government Healthcare System
(1) In order for that policy to become a reality, leftists will need to figure out how to come close to paying for it. Some Democrats pretended to be deficit hawks over the 2017 tax cuts -- which, on paper, 'cost' about $2 trillion (yes, deficits are again ballooning, and both parties are to blame for this irresponsible outcome, which is not the fault of tax reform). Single payer healthcare would cost taxpayers an estimated $32 trillion, or roughly eight times what the federal government spent in total last year, and approaching double the size of the entire US economy. None other than the hard-left chairman of the Democratic National Committee has confirmed that making this math work would require gigantic tax increases on working and middle class Americans. A former hard-left DNC Chair has admitted the same thing:
"The only problem is -- and this is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive is -- the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich."
Considering the lengths to which Democrats went in order to falsely claim that tax reform was a tax increase on the middle class (it was the opposite), I'm not sure how they intend to convince tens of millions of Americans to pony up huge new sums of money to Uncle Sam to fund an unaccountable, abuse-riddled, innovation-crushing, bureaucrat-administered system. The feds can't even pull this off for veterans, a sliver of the population whose care we all agree should be stellar. Liberals want to take the VA mess and inflict it upon more than 300 million people.
Dozens of Congressional Democrats: We Demand a $32,000,000,000,000 Government Healthcare System