The one fear I have for the 2020 election

[Hoyt]

5. Long-term, a Medicare Option is not the best way. But there are too many people happy

with their employer insurance to try to stuff iMedicare-for-All down their throats. If someone can find a simple way to explain to people they’ll be better off paying more in taxes than premiums, great. So far, Vermont, Colorado, California legislators — who abandoned Medicare for all— couldn’t figure out a way to deliver that message.

Mandatory Medicare-for-All is a loser because there are too many stupid people in this country to understand the advantages. We’ll have to go the option route. If Medicare for younger people is as good as we think, people will gravitate toward it quickly.