Politifact Confirms Bernie Sanders’ Healthcare Plan Will SAVE Every American Family $1,200/Year

[Matariki]

http://usuncut.com/news/bernie-sanders-healthcare-plan-would-save-the-average-american-family-1200/

The nation’s leading political fact-checker has debunked Hillary Clinton’s recent attacks on Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan.

According to Politifact’s recent analysis of Bernie Sanders’ proposal to expand Medicare to all Americans under his “Medicare for All” single-payer healthcare system, Sanders’ plan would save the average household between $505 and $1,823 per year — just shy of a $1,200 average cost savings. While this figure is lower than the Sanders campaign’s estimate of $3,855 to $5,173 in savings, it still means American families will pay less under single-payer healthcare than they currently do under the Affordable Care Act.

Sanders’ plan is modeled after single-payer legislation he introduced in 2013, which outlines how the plan would be implemented and paid for on a nationwide scale. First, Sanders would impose a 6.7 percent payroll tax on employers, along with a 2.2 percent healthcare tax on those making less than $250,000 per year. Sanders includes higher percentages for incomes above $250,000 in his legislation (the richest 2 percent of the U.S. population) and a 5.4 percent surcharge on the wealthiest Americans whose modified adjusted gross income is above $1,000,000 (literally less than 1 percent of Americans). Sanders’ bill also includes a 0.02 percent financial transactions tax on Wall Street trading.

So what are Americans getting in return for all these new taxes? As it turns out, quite a lot.

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[merrily]

1. There are lies and then there is the truth and, as we all know, truth has a liberal bias.

[Betty Karlson]

2. 1,200 saved every year. That is awesome.

So much for "raising taxes"...

[merrily]

8. Sure is awesome. Yet people keep lying about it. Why?

[Betty Karlson]

9. Because lying used to work in the 20th century.

Won't be the first time that Clinton is late with catching up with the times: gay marriage, prison reform, TPP, income inequality...

[merrily]

10. Before You Tube!

[Enthusiast]

3. There is no reason we couldn't get it done as cheap as in Europe.

So I don't believe Politifact has the numbers right. The savings would be much higher.

[BeanMusical]

4. Kick and R

[dsc]

5. Politifact did no such thing

first this figure is an average and second it was a range. That said, many people will pay more under this since their employers pay most of their insurance cost and likely won't share that money with the employee. My employer will definately pocket the loot.

[Recursion]

6. What nonsense. Two classes of people will pay more than they do now

1. People without insurance who are avoiding treatment for cost reasons. They pay nothing now; they will pay a lot more under Sanders's plan.

2. People with insurance fully or mostly paid for by their employers. They pay little now; they will pay a lot more under Sanders's plan.

Sanders's is plan is better if you have bad or mediocre insurance, but not if you have good or no insurance.

[stonecutter357]

7. .

a massive across the board tax increase.

[Matariki]

11. LOL, that's what she said

Not actually 'massive' and as the article points out, well worth it. Less than being gouged by private insurance companies. Who will fight to the death for that pot of gold, no doubt.