Reply #2: They should expand Medicare... [View All]

[orwell]

...for all who want to opt in. Those who opt in should pay a premium large enough to cover costs of expanding the pool.

Those low income people should receive a sliding subsidy depending about the relationship of their income to the poverty level.

But all those who currently have insurance that they like should be allowed to keep that coverage.

That would be a plan that could get up and running very quickly with an existing infrastructure that people already trust.

It offers choice, expands the pool of the insured, should cut costs with Medicare's proven track record of negotiation of procedure costs, puts a competitor in the marketplace that allows for pre-existing conditions and portability.

I think over time it would become a defacto National Single Payer system.