Jonathan Chait: Bernie Sanderss Bill Gets America Zero Percent Closer to Single Payer [View all]

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Jonathan Chait writes today for the New York Magazine. Excerpt:

The bill does not contain any tax increases, leaving those to a separate piece of legislation. A nonspecific health-care plan that lacks a plausible financing system has accomplished approximately zero percent of the necessary work, as the Republicans discovered this year.

There is nothing in Sanders’s rhetoric that indicates he even recognizes the shape of the political problem. Instead he employs the classic populist technique of imagining the people as a whole standing united around an obvious solution, and only the machinations of an invidious elite can thwart them.

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