{"id":243910,"date":"2016-05-16T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=243910"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:34:49","slug":"the-fatal-flaw-in-hillary-clintons-medicare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/the-fatal-flaw-in-hillary-clintons-medicare-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fatal Flaw in Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Medicare Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades ago, the wealthy owner of the Washington Redskins lamented the free-spending ways of his head coach, George Allen: &#8220;I gave George an unlimited budget, and he exceeded it.&#8221; Other owners knew there were ways to beat Allen, but outspending him was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one puzzle with Clinton&#8217;s proposal to let people of &#8220;a certain age&#8221;\u2014say, &#8220;55 or 50 and up&#8221;\u2014buy Medicare coverage instead of private insurance. This idea is not likely to win over anyone leaning toward Sanders, because he will always offer more.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_div_Web_Article_mobile_middle1\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>His &#8220;Medicare for all&#8221; blueprint is extravagantly generous: It would cover everyone, not just those close to the current retirement age, and it would provide far more than what Medicare now offers.<\/p>\n<p>You can do that when you assume that torrents of money will fall out of the sky to cover the expense. The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget says that even with the gigantic tax increases Sanders would impose, his health care scheme would add at least $2.6 trillion to the federal debt over a decade. In a less rosy scenario, it could pile on $13.7 trillion\u2014roughly as much as the entire current publicly held federal debt.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2016\/05\/16\/the-fatal-flaw-in-hillary-clintons-medic\">The Fatal Flaw in Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Medicare Plan &#8211; Reason.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades ago, the wealthy owner of the Washington Redskins lamented the free-spending ways of his head coach, George Allen: &#8220;I gave George an unlimited budget, and he exceeded it.&#8221; Other owners knew there were ways to beat Allen, but outspending him was not one of them. That&#8217;s one puzzle with Clinton&#8217;s proposal to let people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}