The Daily Dish
August 17, 2018
Medicare for All
Eakinomics: Medicare for All
Progressives tout “Medicare for All”
So that nobody will recall
Their toxic single payer
That hasn’t a fiscal prayer;
Too bad it is identical.
Follow the link in the title for an overview of recent efforts to use the name “Medicare” to pitch various public health insurance proposals. Framing universal health care as a mere expansion of Medicare tends to increase the appeal of these proposals, but their impacts on the current Medicare program, its beneficiaries, and its fiscal outlook are woefully under-appreciated.
Fact of the Day
When satellite Internet connections are included in the definition of broadband, the number of people without broadband-speed Internet access drops by 10 million people, translating into 95.6 percent coverage of people in the United States instead of 92.3 percent.
