Striking back at Sen. Kamala Harris' call for free healthcare, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said attacks on private health insurance merely takes "choice from the middle class," is an "insane" fiscal miscalculation, and would only widen the gap between rich and poor.
"My comment is 'Earth to Sen. Harris, Earth to Sen. Harris – that doesn't add up," Green told Fox News' "Outnumbered Overtime." "Even if we double taxes on every individual in America, we can't reach the $32.6 trillion. It's insane – it's just crazy."
Green, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and a physician who served two decades as a Special Ops flight surgeon, was referring to the Mercatus Center study's estimation that Medicare for All would cost the government $32.6 trillion over 10 years.
"If we go to healthcare for all, we're going to have rationed care, and it's not gonna be what Americans want," Green added, saying the rich would merely pay up for "Cadillac" healthcare that would widen the gap between America's rich and poor.
"And, of course, those who can afford it will have what they need, and that is a huge divide between the haves and the haves not, only making it worse."
Green, one of 17 physicians currently serving in Congress, was appearing to rebut Harris' 2020 healthcare platform she outlined at a CNN town hall Monday.
"The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care," Harris said. "And you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require.
"Who among us has not had that situation? Where you got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this.' Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on."
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