Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Health Care

	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Health Care

Medicare-for-All offers affordable healthcare to everyone

Improved and Expanded Medicare for All is the ethical, logical, and affordable path to ensuring no person goes without healthcare. Medicare for All will reduce the existing costs of healthcare by allowing all people in the US to buy into a universal healthcare system. What's even better is that Improved and Expanded Medicare for All includes full vision, dental, and mental healthcare--because we know that true healthcare is about the whole self, not just your yearly physical. Source: 2018 Congressional NY-14th election website Ocasio2018.com , Oct 9, 2018

Medicare-for-All saves money; an investment for our future

Q: Your platform has called for various new programs, including Medicare-for-All. According to nonpartisan studies, the overall price tag is more than $40 trillion in the next decade. You recently said in an interview that increasing taxes on the very wealthy, plus an increased corporate tax rate, would make $2 trillion over the next 10 years. So, where is the other $38 trillion going to come from?

OCASIO-CORTEZ: We need to realize that Medicare-for-All would save the American people a very large amount of money. These systems are not just pie in the sky. Many of them are accomplished by every modern, civilized democracy in the Western world. The United Kingdom has a form of single-payer health care, Canada, France, Germany. What we need to realize is that these investments are good for our future. These are generational investments, not short-term Band-Aids, but they are really profound decisions about who we want to be and how we want to act, as the wealthiest nation in history.

Source: CNN 2018 interviews for Congress NY-14 election , Sep 16, 2018

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