WASHINGTON—U.S. presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s plan to provide health care for all Americans, which she estimates would cost just under $52 trillion over 10 years, was attacked over the weekend by Republicans and fellow Democrats and parodied on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” the long-running television comedy show.
The “Medicare for All” proposal, which Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign released on Nov. 1, calls for cuts in defense spending and passing immigration reform to increase tax revenue from newly legal immigrants, two steps that would face an uphill battle in Congress.
