In an interview with Rachel Maddow airing Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doubled-down on an attack that 2016 rival Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) single payer health care plan would “end all the kinds of health care we know.”
“It’s a bit concerning to me because it would basically end all the kinds of health care we know, Medicare, Medicaid, the CHIP program, children’s health insurance, TRICARE for the National Guard, military, Affordable Care Act exchange policies, employer-based policies,” Clinton said. “It would take all that and hand it over to the states.”
Clinton’s daughter Chelsea used a similar line of attack earlier this week, prompting scrutiny, with Sanders defenders and health policy experts pointing out that those health care programs would no longer be necessary in a single payer “Medicare for all” system where everyone would be covered under a government plan. For the full article click here
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