The Government’s Own Number Crunchers Agree: We Need Medicare for All
The Republican-led Congressional Budget Office has realized what many of us have long known: the existing corporate-run health care system is immiserating millions — and Medicare for All could quickly fix the catastrophe.
A banner reads “Medicare for All” at a rally in Portland, Oregon demanding health coverage for all Americans. (Ben McCanna / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
Every now and then, federal officials admit some truths that are inconvenient to the corporations that own the government — and this latest admission is pretty explicit: Scrapping corporate health care and creating a government-sponsored medical system would boost the economy, help workers, and increase longevity.
Those are just some of the findings from the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a new report that implicitly tells lawmakers just how the existing corporate-run health care system is immiserating millions of Americans — and how a Medicare for All–style system could quickly fix the catastrophe.
If that sounds like hyperbole, consider the analysis in its own words. The CBO reports that under a single-payer health care system:
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