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1) #MedicareForAll is "highly disruptive"? Improving and expanding a popular social insurance program to all? Would the @washingtonpost prefer we "expand the ACA" and give seniors tax credits? Less "disruptive"?
2) Doing European-quality managed-competition would be just as hard!
2) Doing European-quality managed-competition would be just as hard!
I truly don't understand the argument that #MedicareForAll would be "highly disruptive." Medicare already covers 60 million Americans whereas ACA plans only cover about ~12 million. Moreover, the same providers serve ACA enrollees and Medicare enrollees.
"Highly disruptive"?!?
"Highly disruptive"?!?
"not the only way to get to universal coverage"
If the @washingtonpost wants to talk "highly disruptive," let's talk about how trying to recreate a German-style hybrid program -- based in decades of German social welfare and bureaucratic history -- from scratch in the USA.
If the @washingtonpost wants to talk "highly disruptive," let's talk about how trying to recreate a German-style hybrid program -- based in decades of German social welfare and bureaucratic history -- from scratch in the USA.
Alternatively, we could talk "highly disruptive" and pursue the Dutch approach to universal health care, which means standardized private plans (about ~€110/month premiums and €385 deductibles), free primary care, and insurance CEO salaries capped at €280k for largest firms.
This nonsense that #MedicareForAll would be "highly disruptive" -- compared to, say, trying to recreate a unique European system from scratch -- is incredibly tiresome.
Medicare already serves 60 million seniors and is the most popular existing health insurance program in the United States -- more popular than private health insurance, including union plans and employer plans, according to @Gallup.
It may be "highly disruptive" for insurance company stock prices -- inflated by the Affordable Care Act -- to implement #MedicareForAll, but it most certainly won't be "highly disruptive" for regular Americans.
Arguably, the transition to #MedicareForAll will be less "disruptive" and less hassle for regular Americans than the annual open enrollment process. <END>
