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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVOX- Bernie Sanders's $32 trillion Medicare-for-all plan is actually kind of a bargain
The federal government would spend a lot more money on health care, but overall US health spending would be about the same as otherwise projected.
$32 trillion.
That is how much federal spending would increase over 10 years under Bernie Sanderss Medicare-for-all bill, according to a brand-new estimate from the libertarian-leaning Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Before you question the source (like Sanders did), you should know the left-leaning Urban Institute came up with the exact same number in 2016.
It sure sounds like a lot of money, and conservatives hopped all over the figure on Monday morning. But there are a lot of ways to think about $32 trillion and one might be that its actually kind of a bargain.
Mercatus is projecting a $32 trillion increase in federal spending, above current projected government expenditures, from 2022 to 2031.
More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17631240/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-32-trillion-cost-voxcare

shanny
(6,709 posts)People arguing against always seem to leave that part out.
Quixote1818
(30,594 posts)Everyone on DU will suddenly decide they are for it again. It's just because Sanders is the main one pushing it. Before the 2016 election pretty much everyone on DU was on board.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Glamrock
(11,997 posts)Once it's part of the Dem presidential candidates platform.