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32. Same answer to both

I think the answer to both of our questions is the same.

Medicare as it exists right now will remain for everyone who doesn't escape into the private market.

Which means (once again) that the private market will siphon off all of the relatively young and healthy (ie the profitable one) and leave the government to take care of the rest.

Which means of course that the system will get even more expensive.

It is the same problem on a larger scale that we have today. Private for the relatively young and well off but government for the elderly and poor. There proposal just makes it worse.

As an aside to your point, I don't believe it will really happen that way anyhow. Everybody knows that unhappy seniors are the most powerful voting block there is. Any gap between insurance cost and voucher value will get covered by scared politicians. Which means that the savings are mythical because the Congress won't have the guts to maintain the cost shifting that the plan relies on.