Tonight, Bernie Sanders tried to gloss over the lack of detail in his health care plan and assure voters that his plan for universal coverage would not dismantle the great successes of Obamacare. While speaking broadly about his plans, though, Sanders left out the detail that 14.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries could end up worse off under his plan, one unintentional loser of many that are created when Sanders’ chooses to offer a “puppies-and-rainbows” plan instead of a detailed and realistic proposal like Hillary Clinton’s.
“Study: Bernie Sanders’s health plan is actually kind of a train wreck for the poor” [Washington Post, 2/25/16]
“Bernie Sanders’s health-care plan could actually hurt the poor” [Washington Post editorial, 2/28/16]
“The numbers don’t remotely add up.” [Austan Goolsbee, formerly chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, New York Times, 2/15/16]
“The false charms of Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan.” [Washington Post editorial, 2/7/16]
“These claims undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda…” [Politico, 2/17/16]
“[Economist] Kenneth Thorpe of Emory University…has estimated that Bernie’s universal-health-care plan would cost about twice as much as Bernie said it would.” [New York Magazine, 2/18/16]
“Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Plans” [The New York Times, 2/15/16]
“The plan would create winners and losers…” [The Atlantic, 2/8/16]