Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What Would Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Cost?
Bernie Sanders’ proposal of ‘Medicare for All’ to replace Obamacare is being hailed as visionary by some and as politically unrealistic by others. As it is for all single-payer systems, the biggest argument against it is that it would cost too much.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readBernie Sanders’ proposal of ‘Medicare for All’ to replace Obamacare is being hailed as visionary by some and as politically unrealistic by others. As it is for all single-payer systems, the biggest argument against it is that it would cost too much. Sanders says it would cost more than a trillion dollars a year, but some analysts say it’s more like double that amount. As Sanders says, if Europe can do it, why can’t we?
