Who won the Sanders-Clinton healthcare debate?

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Sanders has a very salient point long-term:  assuming his figures and plan are accurate, middle-class voters will experience an average of ~$5000 savings on health insurance in exchange for a $500 tax increase.  However, Clinton is right about the path dependency of healthcare reform and how making big structural changes at once can cause problems, especially after the system had already been overhauled less than a decade ago.  I'd lean Sanders on this one though.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Sanders has a very salient point long-term:  assuming his figures and plan are accurate, middle-class voters will experience an average of ~$5000 savings on health insurance in exchange for a $500 tax increase.  However, Clinton is right about the path dependency of healthcare reform and how making big structural changes at once can cause problems, especially after the system had already been overhauled less than a decade ago.  I'd lean Sanders on this one though.

Not a safe assumption, and the whole plan is premised on ignoring the >6% payroll tax increase that we all know will just be passed on through lower wages.

Good point....Sanders's figure likely didn't take the wage-lowering effects of the payroll tax hike when discussing the tax impact on the middle class.  That changes the calculus quite a bit:  a family with a household income of $50,000 would lose 3K in wages plus the $500 tax hike.  This makes it unlikely to be cost-effective for those who collect a paycheck.