.RBReich: Bernie's plans are ambitious. But their costs are peanuts compared to the price of inaction | Opinion
In last Wednesday night's Democratic debate, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg charged that Senator Bernie Sanders' policy proposals would cost $50 trillion. Holy Indiana.
Medicare for All will cost a lot, but the price of doing nothing about America's increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system will soon be in the stratosphere. A new study inthat Medicare for All would save $450 billion and prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths each year. Journalists wanting to appear serious about public policy continue to rip into Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for the costs of their proposals but never ask self-styled moderates like Buttigieg how they plan to cope with the costs of doing nothing or too little.
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