Would ‘Medicare for All’ Save Billions or Cost Billions?

By artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 4:52pm |

By Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy & Margot Sanger-Katz @ NYTimes.com, April 10

Major interactive piece.

[....] We asked a handful of economists and think tanks with a range of perspectives to estimate total American health care expenditures in 2019 under such a plan. The chart at the top of this page shows the estimates, both in composition and in total cost.

The big differences in the estimates of experts reflect the challenge of forecasting a change of this magnitude; it would be the largest domestic policy change in a generation [....]

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/upshot/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-cost-estimates.html