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

[Nanjeanne]

55. You have to consider how much we spend on healthcare in this country of all the

Various programs including Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans care by VA and Tricare, CHIP, different state healthcare programs for children, subsidies we pay for helping people buy insurance on the private market, what employers and employees pay, premiums, deductibles, copays, uninsured care at emergency rooms and many more programs.

What my full premium would be under Medicare as it is now is impossible to know. I suppose you could take the cost of Medicare in a year and divide it by the # of people who get it to get a cost per person but as it is meaningless in the context of a universal program similar to Medicare which covers all ages it’s kind of an exercise I have no desire to research.

I don’t think you are against anything. I don’t know you and a message board isn’t any place to know enough about your likes and dislikes. I am just addressing the info in your posts.

Medicare For All was adopted as the name because it’s an easily identifiable program that is highly rated by the people who get it and because people uunderstand it is a program that is administered by the government that doesn’t rely on profits and million dollar salaries and shareholders and high administrative costs. To try to make it mean that it’s exactly the same as Medicare is now but for everyone with no tweaks to it is disingenuous and naive.