MEDICARE FOR ALL' WOULD DO AWAY WITH PRIVATE HEALTCARE PLANS

Washington Examiner - Yes, ‘Medicare for all’ would do away with private healthcare plans. When President Trump declared in a USA Today op-ed that the Democrats' "Medicare for all" proposal would "outlaw" private health insurance, CNN's Jim Acosta indignantly tweeted that this was "false." But reading the text of the leading proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders makes clear that Trump's op-ed was correct. "It is right there in their proposed legislation: Democrats outlaw private health plans that offer the same benefits as the government plan." This is, in fact, 100 percent accurate. The plan would require, in four years time, for individuals to be enrolled in the new government plan at birth. At that point, Section 107 of the plan says, “it shall be unlawful for...>>>