Washington, D.C. – The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today released a new video highlighting how Jeanne Shaheen and Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal would be a disaster for New Hampshire families who would lose their employer-based health insurance while paying trillions more in taxes.
Since 2017, Shaheen has tried to back away from her very clear support for Medicare for All. And yesterday, ahead of Sanders’s Medicare for All speech, Shaheen refused to answer questions about her role in introducing Medicare for All.
“Shaheen’s work with Bernie Sanders on Medicare for All would be devastating for New Hampshire families who would lose their employer-based health insurance,” said NRSC spokesperson Nathan Brand. “Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Ilhan Omar might agree with Shaheen’s support for eliminating employer-based health insurance, raising trillions in new taxes, and forcing government-run health care on Americans, but Granite Staters know this plan is simply extreme.”
TRANSCRIPT…
Are you guys ready for a radical idea?
It’s called Medicare for All.
Senator Sanders alongside New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen introduced a Medicare for All plan.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen joined more than a dozen Democratic senators in support of Senator Sanders’s bill.
Long considered too radical by many Democrats, it’s now central to how the party talks about healthcare.
Taxes would have to go up to pay for it, while quality, choice, and access to care would go down.
If you have private health insurance, you will lose it.
Every American will be put on a government program and government officials would choose the care that we get.
If you look at how it’s played out in other countries, people having to wait weeks to see a doctor.
They’ve hijacked the good name of Medicare and applied it to a law that would cause upheaval in our healthcare system.
Forty trillion dollars is quite a bit of money. The taxes that you talk about raising to pay for this only account for two. So, where is the other thirty-eight trillion dollars going to come from?
It sounds expensive.
It’s a crazy idea.
It could be a loser politically if they try to go this route in 2020.