Matt Bruenig's People's Policy Project publishes a timely and concise fisking of Warren's Medicare for All funding plan. To be sure, Warren is positioning herself to abandon the idea of covering everyone with a single-payer system as soon as her ludicrous head-count funding scheme gets shredded from the right and the left. But that's the feature, and not any kind of bug.
All of this is an excellent development for Bernie. He can hammer his commitment to M4A, to a reasonable--and much simpler, more straightforward and understandable--payment scheme, and the joys of covering everyone while saving most people boatloads of money. It's not hard: payroll taxes which amount to a huge savings when compared to private health insurance premiums are great for working people, and inane employer taxes which encourage employers to reclassify legions of workers as independent contractors or temporary workers nominally employed by small staffing agencies are dangerous stupid. Bernie is now the only true universal coverage candidate. (Warren is also positioning herself for nothing better than second spot with this failure. That's a good thing.)
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