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Bernie Sanders has a numbers problem. Warren did, too

By Kaylee McGhee White

Published February 25, 2020 10:54pm ET

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Bernie Sanders has a numbers problem. Warren did, too — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gestures while speaking at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, on his policy of democratic socialism, the economic philosophy that has guided his political career. | (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Bernie Sanders finally released a list detailing how he’d pay for his trillion-dollar proposals, but the numbers fall far short of his policies’ projected costs.

Let’s focus on his signature policy, Medicare for All. Economists have estimated that a complete government-funded healthcare system would cost about $32 trillion over 10 years, a number Sanders agreed with during a 60 Minutes interview last week.

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