How much of your health insurance premium is wasted on bloated overhead?

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20. Okay. I was still under the influence of that "1.3%."

Medicare is currently very underfunded.

Basic Medicare doesn't begin to deliver the benefits today's Americans need for lifetime health maintenance.

The data I posted also do not include medication costs, for which another separate and expensive policy is required.

Medicare is also reportedly trying to deal with inadequate budget by shorting end-of-life patients.

Just the kind of little details that 1.3% suggests people need not know. And there are a bunch more. A bunch.

We older people who have its guaranteed coverages love our Medicare, but it's very inadequate in many ways. Many millions are seriously undercovered, just one of the reasons that suggesting its figures would extend to a national healthcare program is deceptive.

The ACA was developed with the benefit of learning from Medicare and Medicaid in place, and it's far better for patients than Medicare and far, far better than Sanders has unconscionably tried to make the nation believe. Any comparison of estimated MfA costs should be to the ACA, including estimates of its costs with the public option implemented.