LOL! Warren campaign says she's looking for other revenue options for MFA, won't say what [View all]

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I guess she FINALLY realized just how bad she was making herself look with all the evasiveness dodging the question of how she'd pay for Medicare for All. All it took was other candidates and the media pointing this out to her repeatedly.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all/index.html

"She's reviewing the revenue options suggested by the 2016 Bernie campaign along with other revenue options. But she will only support pay-fors that meet the principles she has laid out in multiple debates," a Warren campaign aide said in a statement provided to CNN.

The campaign aide also said that the total cost of Medicare for All is unknown and that estimates vary by trillions of dollars. They did not provide details on what "other revenue options" the campaign is studying, and declined to comment on whether Warren may eventually put out her own details on paying for Medicare for All.

A new study by the Urban Institute, released Wednesday, said that federal spending on health care would increase by roughly $34 trillion under a single-payer plan similar to Medicare for All. That's in line with earlier studies that pegged the cost at around $32 trillion.

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Warren's repeated dodges on questions about whether Medicare for All would result in higher taxes are notably out of character for the senator, whose candidacy for the White House has gained steady political momentum in large part thanks to her abundance of policy plans and a knack for explaining and advocating for those ideas clearly out on the campaign trail.

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Tuesday's debate laid bare the political risks of Warren's backing of Sanders' Medicare for All, and foreshadowed that she is likely to continue confronting questions and criticism about tax hikes that could result from Sanders' proposal.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg summed up Warren's predicament this way: "Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this." Former Vice President Joe Biden accused Warren of being "vague."

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"At least Bernie is being honest here, saying how he's going to pay for this -- taxes are going to go up," Klobuchar said. "Sorry Elizabeth, you haven't said that. We owe it to the American people to tell them where we will send the invoice."

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Btw, I'm glad she's finally realized she created a problem for herself here.

And I'll be interested in seeing what she finally comes up with as a source of revenue for MFA.