While I appreciate that's the goal of the proponents, my personal opinion is they won't succeed in it. As you point out, historically we generate "worst of both

While I appreciate that's the goal of the proponents, my personal opinion is they won't succeed in it. As you point out, historically we generate "worst of both worlds" policies at the federal level, and I have no reason to believe that history won't bear itself out again. I also personally think regardless of whether they succeed in making it better, making it available to all is inevitable, but only because for many people who are paying all or part of their premiums, you could probably slap a flat 10% income tax on top of what they're already paying in taxes and even with current medicare's benefits, most wouldn't even be any worse off.