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On the recordDecember 9, 2019
To give you a flavor for what that means as a matter of public finances, if you were to finance that in the traditional fashion of Medicare with a payroll tax, you would need to have a 21-percentage point increase in the payroll tax.
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Anna Eshoo
Democratic · California

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Eshoo outlines the financial implications of funding Medicare for All.

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