Trump falsely claims Medicare for All would cost entire federal budget
President says single-payer system is unaffordable despite Yale research showing it would save $1 trillion annually.
What to know
- Trump claimed Medicare for All would cost the entire federal budget despite research showing it would save $1 trillion annually compared to current spending of $5.7 trillion on healthcare.
- Yale researchers found single-payer would save 114,000+ lives per year by covering uninsured and underinsured Americans, contradicting Trump's claim it 'doesn't work.'
- Online commenters largely support the Yale study findings, citing international examples and noting Americans already pay high healthcare costs through employer plans and out-of-pocket expenses.
- Some commenters debate implementation details—cost increases to federal budget, tax raises needed, and hospital reimbursement rates—while criticizing the current profit-driven system.
The dispute Whether the federal budget burden of Medicare for All is the central issue (opponents stress the $11T annual cost and tax increases) versus whether profit extraction and misaligned priorities are the real problem (supporters argue other wealthy nations already do this and the US can afford it if it reprioritizes spending). · positions read across 133 posts and comments
Medicare for All is affordable and would cost less than current system; Trump is lying or ignorant.
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“We know the upper limit would be what people's employers are already paying for private insurance now.”
TravelerMSY · Reddit ↗
The real issue is profit extraction and priorities, not affordability; the country could pay for it if it stopped military spending and tax breaks.
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“It's why literally every single other OECD country does this...”
ForMoreYears · Reddit ↗
Medicare for All involves real budget and implementation complexities that deserve serious discussion, not dismissal.
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“Annual federal budget would rise from ~$7.5T today to about ~$11T with medicare for all. We would probably need to roughly double income taxes to pay for it.”
mcsul · Reddit ↗
Common Dreams is a partisan outlet; this article belongs on r/politics, not r/news.
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“Commondreams is a hyper partisan Democrat propaganda outlet.”
ironteddybear · Reddit ↗
Donald Trump US PresidentNancy Altman President of Social Security WorksYale University researchers Study authors
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The record 2 articles and posts · last 23 days
What people are saying 24 voices from 2 sites · best of 133 · verbatim
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When they(unproductive investor capitalist wealthy class) say its going to cost... Its going to cost them. Their profits, their nioliberal rights to exploit, their third investment mansions and a collection of luxury cars... The for profit pharma has created a big lie of the economic prosperity just through how the prices for stuff cost how…
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Sorry, best I can do is a ballroom that nobody asked for.
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The model from top to bottom that we have now is completely fucked. We need more doctors and nurses and they need not to be burdened with such high debt. We tried really hard with the ACA but the Supreme Court screwed that up. Now, to get back to even the idea of ACA we'd need to go whole hog and either implement the tax again, selling it to…
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Yeah. The CBO has produced very clear budget estimates so we don't really need to speculate too much. Annual federal budget would rise from ~$7.5T today to about ~$11T with medicare for all. We would probably need to roughly double income taxes to pay for it, but households' other costs might go down and total employee compensation might shift…
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Agreed, many people don't understand the offering health care from a profit dependant company is a bad idea..
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It is wild how people fight for a system that is demonstrably the worst option. I don't get what sells them- the higher costs? Worse health outcomes? Parasitic profit extraction?
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75% of the articles and studies posted on this sub are from progressive think tanks.
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If people were financially literate then the GOP would cease to exist as a major political party
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1. That's a lie. 2. Absolutely hilarious that NOW the budget is some important thing we need to pay attention to as we scream for a ballroom. 3. Release the Epstein Files.
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Some of us are already paying like $15000 in premiums on top of whatever our employer is paying.
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Won’t anyone think of the shareholders? /s just in case
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You know, you think he might actually try to tell the truth once in a while. You know, just to shake things up. No, Medicare for all would not bankrupt the country. It would cut the medical-insurance-healthcare complex's profit margins, but it would not bankrupt the country. What is bankrupting the country are Republicans.
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There have already been numerous studies, including one from Yale about a month ago, claiming that Medicare for all would be cheaper than our current system. It’s the political tactic of treating people like dummies to tell them their taxes will go up but not explaining to them that their out of pocket costs that currently go to private insurers…
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Just posting the numbers here in 2016 Bernie sanders estimated his plan would cost an additional 13.8 trillion over 10 years. Adjusting for Medicare inflation that would be 17.6 trillion today. However in the 2020 race the frequently acknowledged outside estimate was 30 trillion over 10 years. (Sanders did not do a new estimate but agreed with the…
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It's why literally every single other OECD country does this...
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I work for a state government and have awesome insurance for dirt cheap. M4A would more than likely be more money out of my pocket every month, and I desperately want it. Not just for me, but all of my family and friends struggling with health care costs
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One current estimate (from Yale, not some influencer or crank) is that Medicare for All, with no copays or deductibles, would cost 6% of Americans income over $200k, and if you make less than $200k, it's then just free because you're American. This is why most other countries already do this. It's why places like Costa Rica already do this, it's…
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Commondreams is a hyper partisan Democrat propaganda outlet. Hyper partisan propaganda outlets, Democrat or Republican, do not belong on this sub. Go to r/politics. We wouldn’t want breitbart or OAN on here either.
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If the USA switched to the same cost/system as Belgium (who has the most expensive universal healthcare system in the world), they would save over $1T dollars annually compared to what they already pay in tax dollars.
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yeah, because Australia Canada Denmark Finland Iceland Italy Japan New Zealand Norway South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan United Kingdom all went super bankrupt instantly.
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Two things 1) there is untapped healthcare demand which means utilization will go up so it’s going to be the average employer cost multiplied by both current users and new users 2) keep in mind if everyone billed Medicare rates most hospitals would go straight bankrupt
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600 million dollars are going to the ballroom on a building that HE DEMOLISHED. but yeah sure we dont have enough money for medicare. Nice!
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That’s pretty ridiculous. We know the upper limit would be what people’s employers are already paying for private insurance now. Or the ACA quote. I think many Americans working at a megacorp would be shocked to realize they’re already paying 10 to 25K a year for a family health insurance plan. It just happens to be paid by their employer out of…
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As Trump-GOP healthcare cuts devastate millions, Yale experts have found that Medicare for All would save the US over $1 trillion and more than 114,000 lives per year. # MedicareForAll https://www. commondreams.org/news/trump-me dicare-for-all