Does Warren’s Medicare Plan Add Up?

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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At the last Democratic primary debate, Elizabeth Warren refused to say that her plan for Medicare for All would require raising taxes on the middle class. Critics accused her of dishonesty. But on Friday, Warren released a plan pledging to do exactly what she promised. The problem is, the other sources of funding would require a fundamental shift of priorities in Washington. Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	String sound things, string sound things, string sound things.
0:14.0	String sound things, string sound things, string sound things.
0:20.1	There's a whole range of strings and things, called strings and things, including cheese,
0:24.8	strings, yollies and cheese shapes.
0:26.8	Find them all in the cheese and york-a-tile.
0:28.8	Strings and things.
0:29.8	Heads up here at the top.
0:31.6	This podcast contains like a couple swear words.
0:40.3	So Jordan, a week ago, you wrote that Medicare for All is becoming a political quagmire for
0:47.5	Elizabeth Warren.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	Explain.
0:51.0	Well, like the first rule of Medicare for All is don't talk about how you're going to
0:57.2	pay for Medicare for All.
1:01.2	Jordan Weissman is our resident economic wank here at Slate.
1:05.3	And he came into the studio because Elizabeth Warren, she had been trying to follow this
1:09.7	rule.
1:10.9	But then last week, she broke it.
1:12.6	I never thought I would be describing a policy paper as hotly anticipated, but here we
1:17.8	are in 2019 learning new things every day.
1:20.8	Leading in Iowa, Elizabeth Warren is today putting a price tag on Medicare for All.
1:25.2	$20.5 trillion in new spending over 10 years.
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