Mr. Sanders’s plan would eliminate all health insurance premiums, deductibles and nearly all co-payments, reducing the amount that consumers pay directly for health care. But he would compensate by raising taxes, and his financing ideas include a payroll tax that would affect many middle-class Americans. “I will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle-class families,” Ms. Warren said at last week’s debate, a pledge she repeated in Iowa on Sunday. The campaign of one of Ms. Warren’s top rivals, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., noted on Sunday that Ms. Warren committed to releasing a financing plan only after being pushed on the issue. He added that the Biden campaign hopes Ms. Warren’s plan “will be straight with the American people about how much middle-class taxes will go up.”When told Ms. Warren said she would soon release a plan for financing Medicare for all , Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., replied, “Oh good.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2019 19:57 UTC