credible financing plan for it that even exists. And we finally have something now, in large part, because Pete pressed her during those exchanges. Bernie is the only other frontrunner running on single-payer and he outright said he doesn't feel obligated to layout the financing to American taxpayers (https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/politics/sanders-no-exact-plan-medicare-for-all/index.html). What other candidates were there to ask?How else are people supposed to make informed comparisons of single-payer vs all the public options??

Pete pushed for exactly the information needed. And there's no vagueness about financing his public option either, mind you.. it's made clear both in writing and in speeches it would cost ~$1.5T and be financed by repealing the 2017 tax cuts and through new taxes and savings derived from his prescription drug pricing reform package. Done.

Now if you don't "like" his public option?? *shrug* That's fair and totally your decision. Like we talked about elsewhere in the post, if what really excites you about the single-payer proposal is the promise to expand benefits (eg. dental, vision, hearing, long-term care etc) than that's just your priority. But you should know that that won't come cheap and it's likely the federal budget can't sustainably cover it.

But that has nothing to do with the fact that ONE OF THE SINGLE-PAYER CANDIDATES NEEDED TO CLUE AMERICANS IN ON WHAT M4A MIGHT COST AND FOR WHOM. Period. And I will never respect Bernie for the way he basically used Warren as a human shield on that.