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Sanders's Health-Care Plan Is Missing Its Price Tag
It looks generous thanks to that Reaganesque fudge, a gap of more than $1.8 trillion a year.
Wait just a moment.
Photographer: Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesSo Bernie Sanders has a health-care plan. It sounds wonderful. It covers everything, from dental to long-term care. There will be no co-pays or deductibles. You will not have to hassle with an insurer over what’s covered. There’s just one small problem, which is how Sanders is planning to pay for this.
Yes, his health care plan lays out revenue estimates in great detail. But the revenue estimates and the cost estimates are perhaps just a trifle too rosy for me to take seriously.