AOC: ‘Medicare for All Actually Lowers the Overall Cost of Health Care’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "Interesting. (laughs) So, one of the things that we’re really seeing here is that the potential to moving to a Medicare for All system could actually give people a raise in many circumstances. Now, a common rebuttal to that and a common rebuttal to Medicare for All that you’ll hear from conservatives and the right is that we would merely just change the way in which that same premium is charged and that those same dollars would come — that are coming out of our paychecks now would then just be coming out in the form of taxes. But the truth is that Medicare for all actually lowers the overall cost of health care as well. Dr. Collins, isn’t it true that Medicare for All would also reduce the average total cost for lower and middle-income families by eliminating more medical expenses than they would pay in taxes?"

COLLINS: "Depends on how it was structured. There is that possibility, particularly in terms of getting provider prices down to drive these costs that people are paying."