CNN's Jake Tapper, in partnership with FactCheck.org, looks at a claim by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about a study on healthcare costs.
Fact check: The true cost of 'Medicare for all'
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Again?! Another CNN smear job on Bernie.
+TRE45ON
Medicare is not the same as Medicaid. The quality of Medicare doctors is very high, and I’m talking about the whole cost, not just copays. What you’re not taking into account is the current costs. Of course it will cost a lot to provide Medicare to everyone, but that cost is still less than current costs, which are the highest in the world. Medicaid is low quality because we’ve separated the population into the haves and the have nots, and we’ve said Medicaid will take care of the have nots. If you have everyone in the same pool, and instead of paying high premiums to greedy middlemen, you pay a tax to the government, you wouldn’t see costs ballooning out of control, because no one will be making money from it other than the providers who are actually providing the service.
will never forget how the tried so hard to belittle him during the campaign
CNN IS RIGHT ON THIS ONE
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill would cost a breathtaking $32.6 trillion over 10 years.
The Sanders bill would create a national health insurance program and prohibit all Americans from having a private or employer-based health insurance plan.
To pay for it, taxes would amount to 20 percent of payroll, and roughly 70 percent of working households would pay more than they do today.
tapper…..you tried this…and failed….you got corrected stop this. you are wrong. stop using this as fact or basis to discredit medicare for all. stop your bias tapper.
Health care is a service its not a right.
John The evidence has been given to him many times on twitter already, here is one article actually going through the study and the numbers in detail: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/08/15/provider-payments-only-fall-by-10-6-in-mercatus-study/
+Alec Norton It implies having some brains to get this one …, I’m affraid the CNN commentary space ain’t a proper place to find that.
Tapper apologize for this video after it was proven to be false.. why did they repost it? Omg this is why CNN is called fake news
TYT misleads and lies to people every fucking day vargas.
You have to be an educated non bias person to see it clear as day.
They had me for 4 years until I started doing real research into their claims.
YOU CAN’T HAVE SANCTUARY STATES AND OPEN BORDERS WITH MEDICARE FOR ALL VAGAS! WHAT DON’T YOU PEOPLE GET? WE DON’T HAVE AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE WORLD’S POOR.
YOUR PLAN IS NOT VIABLE UNLESS YOU BUILD A WALL AND GET RID OF ILLEGALS.
+TYT SUCKS SWAN BALLS can you give me a couple of examples when they lied?
I can’t believe the people are agreeing with trump that cnn is fake news.
“We talked to the authors of the study” umm….Jake that’s not fact checking.
whyamimrpink78 The study found that over 10 years Bernie’s plan would cost 32.6 trillion dollars over 10 years, which is less than what we are spending now. So no, hes not wrong in saying that. The authors wrote the study in such a way as to make it seem like the spending on Bernie’s bill is a bad thing, and they are biased by the Koch brothers who fund them. Clearly just asking a group funded by people with a vested interesting in blocking medicare for all is not a fact check, but an opinion check.
A true fact check would be to look at the data gathered by this study, look at the projected spending of healthcare overall that we currently have, and give a report based on that. By the way, if we had medicare for all the government would end up paying more, but because individuals will no longer be paying privately for insurance it is entirely possible and in fact likely that the country as a whole pays less. It is just a fact that the government can negotiate as a single body much better than individuals can.
Of course, it is.
Matt Schilling, the study said that $32.6 trillion over 10 years was a conservative estimate. Also, that number is just for public care. What we pay now is for both public and private care. The $32.6 trillion made the assumption that healthcare providers will be willing to take a 40% pay cut without lowering quality and that increasing demand will not increase prices.
The fact check was comparing the conclusion of the study to what Bernie is concluding. Bernie is wrong in what the study says. Now you may disagree with the study’s conclusion where that is a completely different discussion in itself. But you have to be honest in what the study says.
Saying that increasing demand will not increase price is an economic fallacy. Very little suggests that Medicare for all would be cheaper.
Matt Schilling, the issue is that gathering data is challenging. This study is just looking at cost and using Bernie’s assumptions. They are a 40% reduction in healthcare payments where healthcare providers will be earning 40% less, and assuming prices won’t go up despite demand going up. If you assume that you get the number that the study produced.
Now consider that increasing demand will surely increase price, or that a 40% reduction in payments will lower quality, you end up with a situation that Medicare for all is not any better than what we have now. Expand on that how you will almost have to double taxes on everyone and completely dismantle healthcare as we know it, you have a situation where Bernie’s plan is arguably unrealistic. Also consider how every state that tried to pass universal healthcare failed due to cost.
Exactly, not real journalism. This lame
A fact check means checking the facts…I get the feeling tapper didn’t actually read the study. Why are you quoting the author in later statements and not analyzing the study itself. #Fail
…wow…so strange…
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In my professional opinion, and after much pause and review, I do declare that Mr Tapper is 100% correct. The entire country is behind you Mr Tapper. Truer words were never spoken.
Me, Myself and I You’ll love Tapper until he says something negative about Trump and then you’ll stop wanting to tap that
+Peter Xiong I <3 Tapper
Lol cnn so desperate to smear bernie that they repost the same vid with minor edits a week after the 1st
They’re scared to death. Bernie 2020
OffPH.wnr very true. Repeating the same mistake of 2016. A mistake that gave us that clown Trump.
WTF You didn’t get enough thumbs-downs the first time around so you had to post the same video again???? I find your biased “fact check” once again to be very misleading. We get it – you really enjoy suckling from the teet of the healthcare industry and big pharma. It’s apparent from this hit piece that you posted twice now – that you couldn’t care less about the plight of middle to lower class Americans struggling to pay rent let alone pay for health care. JT has such a smug, punchable face don’t you agree?
Let me guess, Anarcho-capitalist?
enhaxed X, you made a claim with zero justification. I take that as a victory for me.
That’s why medicare for all works in Europe or Canada and Australia
Medicare works best in countries that have no medicare. Just like socialism works best in capitalist countries. Socialism only failed in every socialist country ever.
There is nothing radical about UNIVERSAL CARE or FREE EDUCATION.
Out of the 33 developed countries, 32 have universal health care.
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/all-the-countries-that-have-universal-healthcare-cm757323
America used to be the envy of the world for its free education & even a “3rd-World” country like Thailand has Universal Health Care.
https://www.theguardian.com/health-revolution/2016/may/24/thailand-universal-healthcare-ucs-patients-government-political
_”“How can [countries] afford not to invest in the health of their people?…Poor health holds you back so badly.”_
UK has had it since 1948
Germany since the 1883
You posted this twice, but hours after the shooting in Florida you didn’t have a single video about it. You’re a news channel? CBS and ABC were way ahead of you. All you do is hyperfocus on trump and recycle content taking unfair shots at Bernie, but there’s like… Other stuff going on too.
Yes!, Are CNN trying to clean up their image???? They are doing a service to our country by not publicizing Mass Shootings!
Laughable jake… Just laughable… read the bill please
Another hit job by Jake Tapper to protect CNN’s advertisers.
Can you please hire people that can do research? You came back to edit this video and post weeks later after getting the entire premise wrong and in the meantime you couldn’t get one person to check Bernie’s healthcare bill and see if it contained the rates needed for the savings cited in the report?…because it does. There’s also reasons why you can pay at a lower rate with universal healthcare but I wouldn’t look in to it,… clearly your crack research team is already in over their heads.
His “fixed” video is worse than the original because now it is flat out lying.
CNN you never fail to disappoint the American people.
Now this is actual fake news so where is the president?
Screw this video, upvote this if you want medicare for all!
Ya I want things for free!
Cornicus Thotticus what about food and clean water let’s make those free too! Definitely can’t live without them.
https://youtu.be/QSBxUxQcjdk
No
So, you asked the people who did the study if Bernie was correct and they said no. That was the fact check? Why don’t you look at the study for yourself and find your own answers? Bernie said the study proves him right, the Koch back group says it doesn’t, Jake Tapper believes the Kochs, and I don’t. Both sides do it. I guess we’ll have to leave it there.
As a former (quite successful) health insurance salesman and a long term patient as well, I can say unequivocally that the entire US medical system is grossly overpriced. MD’s make way too much money, hospitals are raping us and drug companies are stabbing us deep up the arse. Medicine should be priced relative to salaries and people’s incomes. It is not. Most go into the field to get rich, not to help anyone. It’s greed to the max. And it is bringing down the house.
Jake assumes the CURRENT costs of medical care would be the same in the single payer system. This is a lie. Single payer lowers costs. This is shameful deliberately misleading reporting.