She Guevara strikes again! Latest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposal to pay for Medicare-for-all hits a snag

Greg P. | 6:40 AM on August 09, 2018

During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo last night, Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked about the “sticker shock” of her Medicare-for-all plan and how she would pay for it.

She answered with, “Medicare-for-all is cheaper than the current system” because we aren’t — wait for it — “incorporating the costs of all the funeral expenses of those who die because they can’t afford access to health care. That is part of the cost of our system.”

Ocasio-Cortez: Socialized medicine is cheap because people will no longer have to pay for funerals pic.twitter.com/36rJRWFF0H

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 9, 2018

Got that? Medicare for all makes us immortal and there will be no more funeral costs! Because that must be what she means as everyone dies so deferring funeral costs 5, 10, 15 years, etc. won’t help fund anything. Oh, and a longer life expectancy in America makes programs like Social Security and Medicare even more underfunded. Has she accounted for that yet?

She also doesn’t seem to realize that the individual mandate was repealed, which might come up when she eventually become a real, life lawmaker in a few months:

So apparently, @Ocasio2018 missed the news that the Individual Mandate was repealed last year, interestingly enough, @ChrisCuomo does not fact check her. https://t.co/5vi7cl5Id2 https://t.co/i00oSV7rhb

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) August 9, 2018