Fact-check: “Medicare for all would cost trillions a year that Americans would pay through higher income taxes”
Verdict: Partly True (72% confidence)
Every major independent estimate — CBO ($1.5–$3.0 trillion in additional federal subsidies in 2030), Urban Institute (~$3.4 trillion per year over a decade), Mercatus (~$3.26 trillion per year), and AAF ($47.4 trillion over 2027–2036) — confirms the 'trillions a year' figure for new federal spending, so that part of the claim is well-supported. The financing-through-income-taxes part is partly true but overstated: income taxes are one documented option (CBO, CRFB, and Sanders' own financing doc…
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