Malloy Enabler Ned Lamont Owes Connecticut Voters Answers On Enormous Costs For His Single-Payer Plan

By supporting the imposition of a Bernie Sanders-style single-payer healthcare system in Connecticut, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont owes voters answers for how he plans to pay for the enormous costs of such a proposal. Video from a campaign event earlier this year shows Lamont claiming that he “will champion a single-payer system” if elected this November:

A new nonpartisan study of a Maryland Democrat gubernatorial candidate’s proposed single-payer healthcare has concluded that his program would cost the state “$24 billion a year, forcing lawmakers to significantly raise taxes.” The proposal would increase the state’s budget by more than half. To pay for this, Maryland would have to “levy a 10 percent payroll tax against every business and charge a $2,800 fee for every man, woman and child.”

If Lamont were to impose a similar proposal in Connecticut after years of economic struggles and fiscal crises thanks to Dan Malloy’s failed policies, it would only have the same effect on working families throughout the state. With nonpartisan analysis showing how single-payer healthcare would hurt the pocketbooks and wallets of the people of Connecticut, Lamont owes voters answers on how he plans to pay for his radical single-payer scheme.