Rival candidates attacked Bernie Sanders on financing for his “Medicare for all” plan at the Democratic presidential debate, saying his numbers don’t add up.
“I’ll tell you exactly what it adds up to,” former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said at the Tuesday night debate. “It adds up to four more years of Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, and the inability to get the Senate into Democratic hands.”
Questions about financing “Medicare for all” has dominated the conversation around healthcare at the eight previous debates, and Sanders has received criticism for lacking a detailed plan to pay for his proposal. On Tuesday, the Vermont senator claimed that every academic study about his plan affirms that “Medicare for all” would save money.
Amy Klobuchar added that Sanders’s proposals, including “Medicare for all,” would lead to “broken promises,” citing her own record of passing legislation in Congress.
“It matters if you can actually get things done,” the Minnesota senator said. “I think having someone who keeps their promises and actually follows through and is going to get things done for these people matters.”
