Fact-Checking President Trump’s USA Today Op-Ed on ‘Medicare-for-All’
Virtually every sentence in the president’s op-ed contains a falsehood or a misleading claim
By Glenn Kessler
President Donald Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans — known as Medicare-For-All — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
Many of these are claims we have already debunked. Presumably the president is aware of our fact checks — he even links to one — but chose to ignore the facts in service of a campaign-style op-ed. Medicare-For-All is a complex subject, and serious questions could be raised about the cost and how a transition from today’s health-care system would be financed. Trump correctly notes that studies have estimated the program — under the version promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — would add $36 trillion in costs to the federal government over 10 years.
But this is not a serious effort to debate the issue. So as a reader service, we offer a guide through Trump’s rhetoric.
