ICYMI: Medicare for All Means Hope for None (Administrator Verma WSJ Op-ed)

In Case You Missed this Op-ed by CMS Administrator Seema Verma 

Originally posted in the Wall Street Journal on March 27, 2019

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Medicare for All Means Hope for None

 

 

Medicare, as President Lyndon B. Johnson put it, is a “light of hope” for elderly Americans. Medicare for All proposals threaten to extinguish it. Medicare for All would break a sacred promise and harm seniors’ access to care by forcing a system designed to support them to take on every other American. They deserve a system that helps them get well, not get in line.

 

As for your taxes, the question isn’t whether Medicare for All would raise them, but by how many tens of trillions. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University...

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