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>The real question is: what would it take for the healthcare industry to restructure itself to actually function? Strike the words "over 65" from the medicare

• tonymet 3y ago
  that's a poor excuse. We can provide much better care for the elderly. the bulk of the operating cost growth in the past generation has been from administration.
• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Strike the words "over 65" from the medicare bill. If you mean "universal single-payer", its worth noting that Medicare is very much not single payer and striking the population restriction for Medicare would not produce universal single payer (or even a single comprehensive plan for each individual, unless they are opting for privately-provided, publicly subsidized main insurance -- otherwise hospital [Part A], outpatient [Part B], and prescription drug [Part D] are separate insurance systems, and only the first two are public.) Medicare is a particularly complicated implementation of partially publicly subsidized private insurance with an (incomplete) public option.
• Projectiboga 3y ago
  Medicare only covers 80% and the providers are specifically prohibited from waiving that copay. Yes we need single payer but the Trojan horse of expanding Medicare to lower the age incrementally is just PR it is a way for insurers to reduce the average age of their insured cohort.