Plantagenet wrote:You can't institute "Medicare for all" without having people coming into the Medicare system start to pay Medicare taxes.
Yup. I really like the idea of letting people 55 and over into Medicare, which some politicians have endorsed. (Good place to start. If it works there, then further expansion could be considered).
HOWEVER, as someone who could benefit from that, I would want to be charged the FULL cost differential, so as not to screw up Medicare for people 65 and over. (The reason we have so much debt is to many voters AND politicians want something for nothing, IMO).
Now, then an interesting question would arise. Would the additional cost be more or less than the nearly $1000 I now pay for my private, grandfathered policy? I'd need to know what the figures are likely to be, before deciding what to do.
But all the lefties I hear talking about it want it to be "free" or some token cost, and of course, NOT A WORD about how it would be paid for.