She couldn’t answer.

She didn’t answer — not really.

She deflected and dodged.

Read it, watch it, see it for yourself.

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night pressed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, about how exactly she would pay for her pricey Medicare for All plan.

He grilled her specifically about whether or not middle-class Americans would face a tax increase in order to fund the program.

She didn’t respond to that.

Colbert began the conversation by calling Medicare for All the Democrat’s “most radical” policy position.

He added, “You keep being asked in the debates how are you going to pay for it, are you going to be raising the middle-class taxes … How are you going to pay for it? Are you going to be raising the middle-class taxes?” Colbert asked.

Warren answered the way she’s generally been responding to this question.

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“So here’s how we’re going to do this,” she began. “Costs are going to go up for the wealthiest Americans, for big corporations … and hard-working middle-class families are going to see their costs going down.”

“But will their taxes go up?” Colbert pushed her.

“But here’s the thing,” Warren said.

“No, but here’s the thing,” Colbert interrupted her immediately. “I’ve listened to these answers a few times before and I just want to make a parallel suggestion to you that you might defend the taxes perhaps that you’re not mentioning in your sentence.”

He then added his “parallel suggestion,” as Fox News also noted: “Isn’t Medicare for All like public school? There might be taxes for it, but you certainly save a lot of money on sending your kids to school, and do you want to live in a world where your kids aren’t educated? Do you want to live in a world where your fellow citizens are dying, even if it costs a little bit of money?”

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“So, I accept your point and I believe in your point,” Warren replied to him. “Health care is a basic human right. We fight for basic human rights, and that’s Medicare for All. Everyone gets covered. But here’s how I look at it. I’ve spent a big chunk of my career studying why families go broke. And a big reason … is health care. And even today, people with insurance are going broke over a bad medical diagnosis.”

“Families are paying and paying and paying,” she also said.

There was more.

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