White House anti-socialism report inadvertently makes a case for single-payer

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. You know a Medicare for all system wouldn't be required to stick to the same exact coverages? Yes?

Why do people bring up today’s coverages as if that is exactly what we would do in a Medicare for all?

It would be muck easier to cover Medicare’s current customers - the really sick and really old - if we could include really young and really healthy people in the pool.

I don’t know what it is that makes people think Medicare, as it stands today, is the best it can ever get?

Our insurance system is a complete upside down clusterfuck. Private for profit insurance sucks all the profit out of us while we are young and healthy then pawns us off on the government when we really need coverage.

Then we wonder, gee how can we pay for this? And, to add insult to injury, we make old people buy more for-profit insurance.

I’ll never forget the look on my neighbor’s mother’s (who was visiting from England) face when I explained our system and the supplemental insurance fuck job. She didn’t understand making pensioners pay MORE after they retired.