Pete Buttigieg calls 'Medicare for All' and free college plans 'questionable on their merits'

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73. Pete does not favor buying into Medicare. It's separate from Medicare....

Pete supports achieving Medicare for All through a pathway that helps improve people’s lives along the way while allowing the economy to adjust. He calls this “Medicare for All Who Want It.” This plan makes a Medicare-type public option available on the exchange and invites people to buy into it: if corporate insurers don’t lower costs to deliver something dramatically better than what is available today, competition will create the glide path toward Medicare for All.

To allow buying into Medicare as a public option would destroy Medicare. It would literally not be Medicare, anymore.

The ACA is for young people. It is NOT senior-friendly. Keep your hands off Medicare, which is designed for seniors. No one else in this country is going to make sure that seniors' needs are taken care of at reasonable cost, besides the Medicare system. No one. We've seen it first hand with the ACA.