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Bernie Sanders told TIME on Sunday that he would be willing to raise taxes on the middle class in order to guarantee universal healthcare, after months of weathering attacks from Hillary Clinton._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jan 13, 2016 9:31 PM UTC Bernie Sanders told TIME on Sunday that he would be willing to raise taxes on the middle class in order to guarantee universal healthcare, after months of weathering attacks from Hillary Clinton. by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jan 13, 2016 9:31 PM UTC With the race for the Democratic nomination tightening in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders is taking heavy flak from Hillary Clinton for his healthcare proposal. His plan is expensive (some $15 trillion) and would likely require middle-class tax hikes, Clinton’s campaign has pointed out. It would erase all the hard-earned successes of the Affordable Care Act, Clinton says, and be at the whim of Republican governors who implement it. Now Sanders has taken to trolling Clinton on Twitter, using Team Clinton’s words against her in defense of his universal healthcare plan. The Sanders campaign posted on Wednesday an old photograph on Sanders’ account of the Vermont senator talking earnestly with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s note to Sanders the bottom of the card says, “To Bernie Sanders with thanks for your commitment to real healthcare access for all Americans and best wishes — Hillary Rodham Clinton 1993” > [](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/687317650658189312) Earlier this week, Sanders’ campaign retweeted an old tweet by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, who seemed to jokingly endorse single-payer healthcare in 2013. > [](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/686643033337675776) Sanders says his ambitious single-payer plan would provide healthcare for all Americans, “as a right, not a privilege.” He has not yet outlined how he would pay for the plan, which is estimated to cost $15 trillion. Earlier versions of Sanders’ plan, which he has introduced as legislation in Congress, would raise taxes on middle-income earners and raise employer taxes, for a total of a nearly 9% tax increase. Sanders says that in his earlier plans, families will end up saving money because they will not have to pay for health insurance. Sanders’ policy advisor [told TIME last month](http://time.com/4156619/bernie-sanders-middle-class-tax-pledge/) that he will come up with another way to pay for the plan. **Read More:** [_Why Bernie Sanders’ Tax Pledge Matters_](http://time.com/4156619/bernie-sanders-middle-class-tax-pledge/) Clinton’s aides have cut into Sanders for months, but increased their criticism in recent weeks. They say he is avoiding outlining his plan because he does not want to say he will raise classes on the middle class. “The effort to avoid detailing the tax side of this healthcare plan is a way to obscure the fact that there is no way to do it without raising taxes on working families,” said Clinton senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan on a conference call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. Chelsea Clinton accused Sanders of wanting to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid and “strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance.” In fact, Sanders’ plan would expand Medicare and provide all Americans healthcare coverage. ## Transcript [00:00] I think if we can guarantee healthcare [00:06] to all people, comprehensive healthcare, no deductions, no [00:12] co- payments, no deductibles, and [00:16] if we can cut people's healthcare bill substantially You [00:20] know what media sometimes does, what my opponent [00:22] does, what republicans do is they really try to take a cheap [00:26] shot. So, hypothetically, if you were paying 10, 000 [00:30] dollars in private health insurance, and I said to you, guess [00:33] what? You aren't going to pay that 10, 000 anymore, you're [00:36] going to pay 5, 000 more, hypothetically. Start the fact [00:39] actually, but hypothetically 5, 000 more in Medicare [00:42] payments, IE taxes. You would be jumping up and down for [00:46] joy, you saved $ 5, 000 on your healthcare bills, but then [00:49] you're all raising taxes This is my $ 5, 000. No, I'm lowering [00:53] your healthcare cost by $ 5, 000. So you could take a [00:57] cheap shot and say, oh Sam's trying to raise taxes. That's [01:00] just a distortion of reality. 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