08-29-2019, 12:05 AM
$tevie wrote:
Will Medicare For All mean that we will all have to buy Medicare Supplement policies, which will surely triple in cost as the insurance companies try to cover their losses? When will anybody ever point out that Medicare is not the same as Medicaid? These rich-ass Congress people have no idea what Medicare is.
These plans so far are sorely lacking in detail including answers to your great questions. I notice that Bernie changed the name of his plan to "Health Care for All" to avoid confusion with Medicare. Essentially he's advocating for a single-payer, government run insurance system but I haven't seen anyone explain how we pay for it except to say "tax the rich." At the moment Warren doesn't have a health care plan on her website at all. Biden's plan is to strengthen the ACA. Harris' proposal kind of sounds like the public/private system they have in France. I guess the common denominator is "we're not there yet."