Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has launched fresh digital ads featuring analysts criticizing Medicare for All
By Stephanie Armour Updated Oct. 17, 2019 4:49 pm ET Support for Medicare for All is showing signs of slipping as top-tier Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders struggle to sell the proposal without providing specifics on the financial trade-offs for voters.
“My view on this and what I have committed to is, costs will go down for hard-working middle-class families,” the Massachusetts senator said at the debate without providing details. Advocates for universal coverage say any increase in costs to individuals would be offset by lower state and employer health-care spending, the elimination of out-of-pocket costs and an expansion of coverage by offering more robust benefits. But voters remain worried that their current health insurance premiums, which are known amounts, would be replaced by some unknown and unspecified tax, according to some health analysts and academics.
The Vermont senator disputes that assertion. While Mr. Sanders hasn’t advocated a specific, detailed plan to pay for his Medicare-for-All plan, he has outlined a menu of options that includes a 4% income-based premium—a tax by another name—paid by households that he says would raise $2.5 trillion over 10 years. He says a typical middle-class family would save more than $4,400 a year under the plan.
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