Medicare for All could save the country $5.1 trillion over ten years

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11. How would that be different from the ACA with a

single payer option for all who want to sign up for that? Seems to me both systems are far more similar than otherwise.

Btw, what WOULD be covered under this system that would actually not be Medicare (for all) but is merely called that? And that should be a good thing, one hopes. My husband and I are on Medicare. Each year we pay:

2 Medicare part A policy premiums, purchased from the free market using for-profit providers and products.

2 Income tax charges on Medicare part A.

2 Medicare part B supplemental insurance policies, purchased from the free market using for-profit providers and products, because bills not covered under part A would break us.

2 Medication policies because Medicare doesn't cover, purchased from free market, using for-profit providers and products.

2 Dental policies because Medicare doesn't cover, purchased from free market using for-profit providers and products.

2 Vision policies because Medicare doesn't cover, purchased from free market using for-profit providers and products.

That's 5 for-profit policies we pay for under Medicare for each of us, or 10 for the two of us.

Don't go away yet! We also have to pay DEDUCTIBLES, COINSURANCE, AND COPAYS on these policies.

Read the fine print, Muskiteer. And if I were you, I'd wonder why we should want to destroy the ACA we already have safely in hand, proven good, proven supported by a large majority of Americans, and ready to build on, and instead switch to this untested pig in a poke that hasn't earned trust and support. I can see no honorable reason to do this in the face of Republican determination to permanently destroy all national healthcare systems and believe it's mostly a partisan political gambit to draw votes.