Two of our White House correspondents report: “Some outsiders see the cascade of hard-line policy ventures, unorthodox appointments and high-level purges of recent days as a sign of Mr. Mulvaney’s expanding influence, assuming that he is pushing Mr. Trump to the right. Mr. Sanders ran for president as an outsider in 2016, but his brand of democratic socialism has taken root on the Democratic left. The co-sponsors of his Medicare for All bill include at least four Senate Democrats who are running against him. The details: The Times asked a handful of economists and think tanks with a range of perspectives to estimate total health care expenditures in 2019 under a Medicare for All plan. The range of responses, and the things that all the experts agree on, offer a look at what would be the largest domestic policy change in a generation.

Source: New York Times April 10, 2019 09:36 UTC