Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Fox News Gins Up Fears About Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All Plan

Fox News Gins Up Fears About Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All Plan

Fox News’ Your World joined in the effort of using a Koch brothers study to scare viewers away from Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-all” plan that Fox & Friends also fear mongered about earlier today.Media Matters wrote about the Fox & Friends segment:

The Fox gang failed to clarify, however, that while the study found that the plan would raise overall federal spending, the "overall health care spending in the United States over the same period" would be slightly reduced, according to Vox. In fact, Vox says that, “many or even most Americans could end up saving money on their premiums or on out-of-pocket costs.”

In other words, under Sanders’ plan, the country would spend roughly the same amount on health care overall, and would also enjoy universal health care coverage…

On Your World, host Trish Regan “asked,” "If Democrats are going to slam the GOP for increasing the debt, how can they answer to this, right? You can't have it both ways."

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