Jared Bernstein
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554 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Jared Bernstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, you have a lot of investors supporting that kind of integration.
But on the insurance point,
Remember, when we did the ACA, we made a political, because I was in the Obama administration then, we made a political calculation that we were going to go, you know, through the insurance companies, not around them.
We were going to adapt them as allies.
Well, they we never would have legislated that if we had, I think, if we had gone with the, you know, trying to crowd them out.
And, you know, I think that's why Medicare for more is going to be a tough sell, because they recognize that that kind of competition, they don't want to compete with the government.
They recognize that Medicare can provide less expensive health care for for people.
And, you know, they kind of are resigned to
assigning that to seniors.
But if you take that down to 50, they're going to fight you tooth and nail for those mansion reasons I said before.
But we still have to go there.
Well, not necessarily because we're not getting into the policy weeds.
So it's not that this is going to be free for people.
I mean, Medicare is not free for anybody now.
You still have Part B premiums and all that.
No, they would have to pay an actuarially fair premium rate if you're on Medicare.
It's not free.
It's not like Medicaid, which is kind of free health care.
But that premium is going to be considerably lower than what you're paying to the private sector.
Well, first of all, the way Senator Sanders talks about it is he wants people to work eight hours less per week but not take a cut in pay.
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