Question about Medicare 4 all, how would it cost more than the current system?

[Nanjeanne]

39. No I don't. If people are paying in during their working time in taxes, it's still taxes.

And people who are paying that plus also paying their private plans in anticipation of getting Medicare will not have to pay all those years of much higher premiums and deductibles while they pay their taxes. So younger people who are now paying very large premiums and deductibles will still save something even if their monthly policy is higher than a senior’s $300 month plan.

People will still be paying into Medicare just as they do now through taxes. And many of those people will not be taking out in care what they pay in until they need it. To make some arbitrary statement that the full cost of Medicare is $1200 a month and rates will go up 15% the next year is based on what? I haven’t got a clue what you are trying to say. You say Medicare For All or a Public Option will be easier to enact. Well then why are you arguing against Medicare For All? And hopefully you understand the concept of insurance being based on shared costs, right? Bigger pool and all? A public option is a compromise that may wind up having to be the compromise. But it’s a lousy starting point. If you allow people not to participate in the pool and not have a large pool of younger healthier people, you run the risk of winding up with what in states is the high risk pool, which is unaffordable to sustain.

Im truly at a loss why people think giving subsidies to private insurance companies from taxpayers money, and having to administer dozens and dozens of different programs so it’s harder and harder to streamline administrative costs or why shareholders dividends should be the ultimate goal of a company rather than care for citizens.