Elizabeth Warren unveiled her long-awaited plan Friday to raise the $20.5 trillion she says is needed to pay for single-payer health care in America
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Because Sanders’ bill lacked key details that determine how much the overall system will cost — such as how much physicians and hospitals would be paid — Warren is proposing these details herself.The most sweeping and controversial piece of her additions to Sanders’ bill is a pledge to pay all physicians current Medicare rates — which are much lower than private insurance rates but higher than Medicaid — and to pay hospitals slightly above Medicare rates.
“Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this,” South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said to Warren at the last presidential debate. He has continued to push Warren on the issue since, telling reporters earlier this week that “my concern about the plan she’s putting forward is not just the multi-trillion-dollar hole but also the fact that most Americans would prefer not to be told that they have to abandon their private plan.
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