Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Which do you Favor and Why: Medicare for All or ACA expansion? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)up for public option coverage. MfA coverage would eventually be virtually identical but take years longer to become available. I fully intended to sign up for the public option back in 2009, before the Republicans forced it to be left out of the initial stage. I also fully expected then and expect again that the vast majority of people will eventually decide for it.
As for that last, no. And if anyone's been suggesting MfA would somehow be more "socialist" than the ACA, they're trying to deceive. Medical care, devices, and services would all be provided by for-profit corporations and other private business entities, the same as the ACA and Medicare are. No difference: ALL for-profit medicine that is government regulated, but none even slightly socialized.
Now, the VA is socialized medicine because it owns and/or controls the means of production and takes no profit: the facilities, labs, and employee personnel are all the government-owned and run VA.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden