Economists Nathan Tankus and Marshall Steinbaum join us to discuss the biggest red herring argument leveraged against the single payer movement: how are you going to pay for it? We discuss what this question distracts from, how the answer is actually quite simple, and the number of ways a single payer system would have profound macroeconomic benefits.

Nathan Tankus is Research Director at the Modern Money Network and the author of the publication Notes on the Crises.

Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute.

This interview is part of Medicare for All Week 2021, our second annual limited series on building the movement for health justice. Every day from February 8-13 we'll be airing a new interview on single payer and the need for a national health system in America.

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