Economics

Medicare-for-All Threatens Jobs in State Vital to 2020 Democrats

  • Supporters see way to save lives -- and billions of dollars
  • But government-run healthcare could also end 2 million jobs
Empty nurses station in hospital
Photographer: ER Productions Limited/Digital Vision

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have a promise for workers who would lose jobs under their Medicare-for-All plans. They’ll be taken care of, with billions set aside for retraining. As Warren’s campaign website puts it: “No worker will be left behind.”

Tell it to Bob Stein, who sells health benefit plans to employers near Minneapolis.