Obama budget official: ‘Medicare for All’ is Democrat version of GOP’s ‘repeal and replace’

Democratic proposals for a government-run health-care system are the equivalent of Republican bids pushing to repeal and replace Obamacare, and they will never pass, President Barack Obama’s former budget chief said Tuesday.

“Medicare for All” will never be implemented in the U.S. because the “details” are “too hard,” former Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag said at CNBC’s Healthy Returns conference in New York. Instead, the public will begin to see a “bogeyman” version of government-run health care emerge after the 2020 presidential election.