7 reasons to fear Kamala Harris' radical 'Medicare-for-all' schemes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : She promised that "Medicare-for-all is our goal" and committed to abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan.
53% : CRITICSSecond, "Medicare-for-all" requires unsustainable new spending.
53% : This is an estimate of new spending - notwithstanding the Medicare trust funds that would be liquidated to fund "Medicare-for-all.
48% : Rather than increasing the true affordability of health care, "Medicare-for-all" would leave families worse off, diminishing the average annual disposable income of a family on private insurance by $10,554.
44% : "Third, even with this astronomical new spending, "Medicare-for-all" requires significant reductions in already low payments to doctors, nurses, hospitals and nursing homes, cutting $5.3 trillion over a decade.
43% : When a Canadian provincial government passed a prohibition on private health insurance, the Supreme Court struck it down, effectively saying that Canadians have a right to health care, not a right to waitlists.
41% : THE ANSWER IS SHOCKING"Medicare-for-all" requires a plethora of additional taxes - ending the tax exclusion for health expenditures, "one-time" taxes on businesses, new fees on financial institutions, new taxes on the wealthy, new estate taxes, and the list goes on.
40% : Providers would no longer be able to shift costs from Medicare to private payers, and could thus face 40% reductions from private insurance rates.
39% : Shifting to "Medicare-for-all" will only exacerbate these shortages and hurt patients, similar to how other single-payer systems have failed their citizens.

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