Des Moines, Iowa — After months of questions and attacks from opponents, 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren released a plan on Friday that addressed funding for “Medicare for All” with a promise not to raise a single penny in middle class taxes , an attempt to plug a growing hole in her narrative as the candidate who has a plan for everything except for funding health care . The plan consisted of two parts: an estimate of what single-payer, government-run health care would cost and how Warren would pay for it without raising "one penny" of taxes on middle-income Americans. "That's right: We don't need to raise taxes on the middle class by one penny to finance Medicare for All," Warren wrote. (MORE: Warren won’t say if she’d raise middle class taxes to pay for Medicare for All) Warren has been pressed numerous times before on how exactly her administration would plan to pay specifically for her vision of Medicare for All. The senator from Massachusetts has consistently pivoted to the cost for American families, providing nearly identical answers in the last two debates, on late night talk shows and in response to reporters' questions. On Friday, she addressed the specifics… Read full this story
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