In Case
You Missed this Op-ed by CMS Administrator Seema Verma
Originally posted in the
Wall Street Journal on March 27, 2019
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Medicare for All Means Hope for
None
Medicare,
as President Lyndon B. Johnson put it, is a “light of hope” for elderly
Americans. Medicare for All proposals threaten to extinguish it. Medicare for
All would break a sacred promise and harm seniors’ access to care by forcing
a system designed to support them to take on every other American. They
deserve a system that helps them get well, not get in line.
As
for your taxes, the question isn’t whether Medicare for All would raise them,
but by how many tens of trillions. The Mercatus Center at George Mason
University...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
Medicare for All Means Hope for None
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