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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:36 PM Jul 2017

We should stop saying Medicare for all and [View all]

single payer in the same sentence as if they are interchangeable ideas.

I have Medicare but I don't have single payer. They are two different things.

Individuals pay for their Medicare coverage.

I had to choose what insurance company to buy my part B, part D and supplemental from.

If Medicare for all is not like my Medicare it isn't Medicare at all.

Single payer is paid for with tax revenue not by the individuals covered like Medicare.

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