‘Medicare for All’ would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study

[zipplewrath]

103. Well, sorta

"single payer" or "medicare for all" can technically be called "insurance", but it isn't by any ordinary model of insurance. On a national level, it just becomes an entitlement program. It's something similar to being "self insured", which is just a fancy way of saying you pay all the bills. It really isn't a "national insurance program" as much as it is a shared risk pool.

But beyond the sematic argument you seem to be pursuing, you're missing the larger point which is that under a medicare for all or single payer, everyone would be "ensured" of receiving health CARE. Under ACA, no such assurance exists.