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TRUMP LIES THAT MEDICARE FOR ALL WOULD COST ‘ENTIRE BUDGET OF THE
WHOLE COUNTRY’  
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Jake Johnson
September 2, 2026
Common Dreams
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_ As Trump-GOP healthcare cuts devastate millions, Yale experts have
found that Medicare for All would save the US over $1 trillion and
more than 114,000 lives per year. _

Members of National Nurses United rally with lawmakers to show their
support for the Medicare for All Act on April 29, 2025 in Washington,
DC. , (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 

US President Donald Trump
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during an Oval Office event on Tuesday, falsely claiming the proposal
would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective despite new research
confirming it would save lives and cost significantly less than the
corporate-dominated status quo.

The president’s remarks came during an event touting his limited,
voluntary, and secretive agreements
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with leading pharmaceutical companies, deals purportedly aimed at
lowering drug prices [[link removed]].
Trump again lied by claiming that his efforts are “much bigger”
than Medicare [[link removed]] for All,
which would provide comprehensive health coverage to every person in
the US for free at the point of service, eliminating premiums, copays,
and deductibles.

Trump said that Medicare for All, which has not been tried at a
national level in the US, “doesn’t work,” falsely claiming a
single-payer [[link removed]] system
would cost “the entire budget
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send taxes into the stratosphere.

Nancy Altman, president of the progressive advocacy group Social
Security Works
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the forthcoming book, _The Road to Medicare for All: A Call to Action_
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told Common Dreams on Wednesday that “Trump is once again revealing
that he lies about healthcare
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of it.”

 

Total federal outlays were $7.04 trillion in 2025. According to a
study published last month
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University researchers, a single-payer system like the one set out in
Sen. Bernie Sanders
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for All Act would save the US roughly $1 trillion per year in national
healthcare expenditures, which totaled around $5.7 trillion
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year. The finding was consistent with past research showing major
savings
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under Medicare for All compared with the current privatized system.

“A universal healthcare system in the US would not require the
country to spend more on healthcare,” the Yale researchers wrote.
“It would require it to spend less. Our results indicate that the
existing budget is more than sufficient to cover everyone at lower
total cost.”

The study also found that Medicare for All would save more than
114,000 lives across the US each year by providing the tens of
millions of uninsured and uninsured Americans with comprehensive
coverage.

The researchers contrasted the life-saving impacts of a Medicare for
All system with the deadly consequences of the unprecedented Medicaid
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into law last summer. Experts at Yale and the University of
Pennsylvania [[link removed]] estimated
that the sweeping Republican assault on Medicaid could cause more than
51,000 deaths annually as millions are kicked off the program.

“Numerous highly respected analyses show that improving Medicare and
expanding it to everyone, with no premiums, copays, deductibles or
coinsurance costs trillions of dollars less than what the nation now
spends, while covering the entire population and saving lives,”
Altman of Social Security
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Dreams. “The question isn’t how will we pay for universal
coverage, but how will we divvy up the savings.”

The House version of the Medicare for All Act, led by Reps. Pramila
Jayapal [[link removed]] (D-Wash.)
and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), is cosponsored by a majority
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chamber’s Democratic caucus—though it’s opposed
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by the House Democratic leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
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Senate version of the bill, led by Sanders, has 17 cosponsors.

“We already introduced the legislation. Now we need the political
will to pass it,” Jayapal said
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“Healthcare is a human right. No one should go broke, or die,
because they got sick.”

_Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams._

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