Medicare for all: Why not?

[Goodheart]

4. Every one of your five points is flawed.

1. "A better deal with their private insurance" for some people means that the entire population as a whole is getting screwed on costs and benefits. Your argument is akin to saying that we should subsidize fancy educations, fancy roads, fancy libraries for only those who can already afford it... and make no mistake about it... these employer-provided plans ARE subsidized by everybody else. Ask yourself why employer-provided healthcare benefits are not taxed as income to the employee AS THEY SHOULD BE.

2. Lots of people have nothing to choose.

3. Medicare is not free? Say what? Is police protection free? Is private insurance free to the public as a whole when much of it is subsidized by everybody and when it costs MORE overall to everybody than would Medicare?

4. Unemployed people? Too bad. Should we keep people employed in other industries that add absolutely nothing of value to the economy?

5. Medicare for all IS realistic, as scores of other countries have proven.

Time for you to rethink.