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Trump has promised to end social security and medicare. We can't believe anything he says, buy maybe ending medicare could somehow end private insurance and the
by whoitwas 2y ago
Trump has promised to end social security and medicare. We can't believe anything he says, buy maybe ending medicare could somehow end private insurance and the indentured servitude of Americans? Currently most Americans have to be employed to have access to the worst system in the first world ...
- ethbr1 2y agoThis is about Medicare Advantage [0] specifically, and how it's apparently more costly than traditional Medicare, even after accounting for confounding factors. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Advantage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Advantage
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- whoitwas 2y agoi don't understand why you would reply to me with a definition of MA. it's laid out plainly in thousands of words in the article.
- ethbr1 2y agoBecause Medicare and Medicare Advantage are two different systems, only one of which is hybrid-private? So you might want to be more specific in what you're talking about in your original comment, re: Medicare.
- whoitwas 2y agoWhy? If medicare is ended and there's no more private insurance, MA also would cease to exist. You're just bad at comprehension and probably didn't read the article based on context.
- computably 2y agoWhat logical leap am I missing here? Ending Medicare would do absolutely nothing to change the fact that most Americans receive private insurance through their employer, it would just result in 67 million people losing their insurance.
- whoitwas 2y agobecause medicare is a giant bandaid on the problem that is private health care. so removing the bandaid may cause the evil system to collapse through revolt or otherwise.