12-03-2019, 12:21 AM
Ombligo wrote:
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Medicare for all doesn't work on its own because you're still on the hook for at least 20% of your medical bills under Medicare.
You will still need a supplemental insurance plan.
We should have a true single-payer system, but I would settle for “Medicare Extra For All,” so long as bankruptcy-inducing co-pays and "patient responsibility" bills are eliminated.
I too would like a single-payer system, but the Medicare model with supplemental works in that it keeps the private insurance sector working. Closing out the private sector totally could cost upwards of 500,000 jobs. This is the other thing I keep asking about (not here but elsewhere). Where will all these employees find news jobs? I get crickets when I ask this.