If Warren were to drop Medicare for all

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37. You would still be better off with Medicare for All.

I understand what you're saying, but I believe you're mistaken about what Medicare for All would really mean. You're assuming that the health care you receive would be inferior under Medicare for All. You're assuming that it would somehow be like having inferior health insurance. But those are false assumptions.

Under Medicare for All, there would be no paperwork. Nothing would have to be approved. Your doctor would tell you what is needed; you would have it done; and you wouldn't have to pay anything. That's how it works in Canada. People have operations all the time without paying anything or having to file any paperwork. And, when your procedure is urgent, you go to the head of the line. People get cancer all the time in Canada, and they are treated for it.

Please see:
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20180601/cancer-care-twice-as-costly-in-us-versus-canada#1

A month's worth of chemotherapy cost $12,345 on the U.S. side of the border versus $6,195 just over the line into Canada, according to findings scheduled to be presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in Chicago.

What's more, the extra money Americans paid didn't buy them any more time on Earth. Average survival was roughly similar on either side of the border.

"You don't necessarily see that patients in Canada are faring much worse, or worse at all, which is sometimes the impression that we have in this country -- that our outcomes are far better than in places with single-payer health care," said principal investigator Dr. Veena Shankaran.