Bernie Sanders and Jake Tapper Spar Over Koch-Funded 'Medicare-for-All' Findings

[Uncle Joe]

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After pushback from progressives for framing Sanders’ remarks as related to government spending—rather than the total costs shouldered by the American people toward healthcare expenditures—CNN edited the video for clarity. Backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) cavalry of Jacobin and Common Dreams, the Vermont senator continued castigating Tapper for “errors peddled by the Koch-funded Mercatus Center.”

“Tapper says, ‘The study’s author says that that $2 trillion drop is not actually his conclusion. He says that’s based on assumptions by Senator Sanders.’ Wrong. Provider payment rates in our plan are not assumptions, they are written into the bill,” wrote Sanders on Twitter. “Any score that replaces Medicare reimbursement rates with some other set of rates is not a score of our plan.”

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Sanders shot back by citing reports and op-eds supporting his Medicare-for-All initiative from, conflictingly, CNN and The Washington Post. In a final zinger to discredit the “corporate media,” the progressive called Blahous a “far right-wing economist” who has been “discredited” by “mainstream economists.”

“So, the question that must be asked is why would the corporate media put their blind faith in a far right-wing economist whose past reports have been so thoroughly discredited by mainstream economists and experts?” asked Sanders.


http://observer.com/2018/08/bernie-sanders-jake-tapper-fight-over-medicare-for-all-findings/

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Good question... Bernie is the bomb!!

[wasupaloopa]

2. How much per month will an individual pay for Medicare for all?

That is the number that matters. Looking at it from a macro level means nothing since it is a lump sum.

Will it be like income tax where everyone pays or can young people opt out?