Economics
Warren Maps 3-Year Timeline Toward Medicare for All; Stocks Rise
- In first 100 days, children and poor families would be covered
- Congress would be asked to push through $20.5 trillion plan
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Warren said Friday her Medicare-for-All plan would be implemented over three years, a major concession to the difficulty of fundamentally changing the way Americans get health care. Managed-care and hospital stocks moved higher on the news.
A Medium post Warren published Friday mapped out a strategy to enact a mandatory government-run health care system that she estimates would cost $20.5 trillion but others have tagged at more than $30 trillion.