Sorry Trump, Medicare for All Is Great

Donald Trump took to the pages of USA Today yesterday to denounce Medicare for All. His column is laughably bad.

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GOP staffers wrote a piece for USA Today about Medicare for All that was published yesterday under Donald Trump’s name. As you might expect, the piece is full of errors and misrepresentations. Let’s begin.

Trump says:

Dishonestly called “Medicare for All,” the Democratic proposal would establish a government-run, single-payer health care system that eliminates all private and employer-based health care plans and would cost an astonishing $32.6 trillion during its first 10 years.

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