Donald
Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking
socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it:
we’re winning.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Part
4 - The Truth About M4A
It’s
not just Tuesday’s report. Earlier this month, President Trump
penned an op-ed in USA Today directly criticizing Bernie Sanders’s
Medicare for All plan, claiming that it would somehow “eviscerate
Medicare” and “threaten America’s seniors.”
Of
course, the plan would do no such thing, seeing as how it’s
predicated on expanding the existing program — which functionally
serves as a single-payer system — to all Americans. And as Sanders
himself pointed out, Trump’s case is “full of lies.”
But one
thing Trump did get right in his op-ed is that a full 64 percent of
House Democrats, along with fifteen Democratic senators, have signed
on to Sanders’s plan.
And in
nearly half of all the races that Democrats are contesting this fall,
their candidates are backing Medicare for All. That’s a massive
shift from just two years ago, when few national Democrats openly
favored such a plan. Even Hillary Clinton said in 2016 that
single-payer health care would “never, ever come to pass.”
Sensing
the surging popularity of Medicare for All, the CEA authors devote
over a dozen pages to criticizing the policy. Yet, as Sarah Kliff
points out, the report “inadvertently makes a case for
single-payer” by showing that Medicare recipients in the United
States actually face shorter wait times than those who hold private
insurance. Oops.
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