WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- The House Budget Committee issued the following press release:

Washington, D.C. - Dr. Joel Zinberg, director of the Paragon Health Institute's Public Health and American Well-Being Initiative, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the enormous costs of the Democrats' "Medicare for All" scheme. Democrats' plan would add an estimated $47 trillion in federal spending over the next 10 years, all to fund a health care system marketed as "free."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders first introduced his Medicare for All legislation in 2017. Despite multiple reintroductions, the proposal has never received a floor vote in either congressional chamber. Medicare for All has become a rallying cry for pr...