How would Medicare for All Work? Medicare today is viable because people have paid 30+ years into

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59. The insurance companies are making money

by denying or limiting claims. That's the rub. Insurers have left ACA markets because the ACA forces them to take clients with pre-existing conditions and pay the subsequent claimsn- those claims play havoc with the "bottom line". With medicare for all, the financial risk the sickest people pose should be much, much smaller since everyone will now be covered and paying into the same system.

I could see the private health insurance market being just medi-gap/supplement policies, that are already tightly regulated.

Further, Warren has a plan that calls for investment in gov't/gov't funded research that would be available to anyone willing to create and keep jobs here in the US. The teaching and research hospitals and medical schools would be unaffected, even have additional gov't support.