Buttigieg tells Medicare-for-all proponents to show their cards

[George II]

1. That's exactly what I've been saying - all those cost savings are pie-in-the-sky estimates....

....nothing specific on where they're going to come from.

Plus, the "Medicare for All" crowd keeps mixing health care INSURANCE with health care. This plan can "lower" the cost of insurance, but not the cost of doctors, hospitals, laboratories, etc.

Plus, as I've also been saying, private insurance companies are an integral part of the administration of the existing Medicare. Who is going to do all the work of the insurance companies if they're cut out of the picture? Where are all of those workers going to go? Has BS figured in his "costs" the programs needed to retrain them, support them during that retraining, unemployment payments, THEIR healthcare insurance, etc.

There are so many unspecified or vague aspects of Medicare for All that no one knows about yet. It's like any other government program, there will be huge cost overruns or costs that haven't been accounted for yet.

The bottom line is that this plan will wind up costing Americans MORE than what they're paying today.