No, Medicare for All Is Not "Expensive"

I was going to really tee off on this NYT article, calling Medicare for All an "ambituous and expensive left-wing" policy, but I think Paul Waldman did a nice job making the point in his Washington Post column.The basic point is that reporters should leave these sorts of adjectives out of their coverage of the debate over reforming the health care system.

Every other wealthy country has some sort of universal health care system, many with government run insurance that look a lot like Medicare...

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Published on January 30, 2019 08:24
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