>And, our healthcare will instead be subject to the whims of the politics, rather than the profits for Shareholders. Medicare works because it's beneficiaries a

>And, our healthcare will instead be subject to the whims of the politics, rather than the profits for Shareholders. Medicare works because it's beneficiaries are a strong voting block. There are population segments in America who aren't. The point of Medicare for All is also to instantiate this new voting block across as much of the population as possible, to imbue them with this political power and free them from control by their employers and the profit-seeking of healthcare companies. You have the causation backwards: government provided healthcare among the elderly is what has created their defense of the system. Medicare for All extends the possibility of this defense to everyone.