Biden Questions If Medicare for All Is ‘Doable’: ‘How Are You Going to Find $35 Trillion?’
Former Vice President Joe Biden is sharing his opinion on the idea of Medicare for All in America and the staggering price estimate. In an MSNBC interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday, Biden was asked a…
Former Vice President Joe Biden is sharing his opinion on the idea of Medicare for All in America and the staggering price estimate.
In an MSNBC interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday, Biden was asked a hypothetical question about Health Care if he were president.
“Let’s flash forward, you’re president,” O’Donnell began. “Bernie Sanders is still active in the Senate, he manages to get Medicare for All through the Senate in some compromise version, Elizabeth Warren’s version or another version. Nancy Pelosi gets a version it through the House of Representatives. It comes to your desk, do you veto it?”
In response, he opted to use the moment as an opportunity to raise concerns about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) proposed policy for Medicare for All.
Biden went on to express apprehension about the idea of signing that type of bill, citing concerns about the staggering cost of healthcare over the next decade.
“I would veto anything that delays providing the security and the certainty of Health Care being available now,” Biden said.
He continued, “If they got that through by some miracle, if some epiphany occurred, and some miracle occurred and said, ‘OK, it’s passed,’ then you got to look at the cost. I want to know how did they find $35 trillion?”