Reply #17: because of who would buy into it - at least initially [View All]

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The fear is that a disproportionate number of people with serious medical needs would buy in since they don't have other options. That would make the cost per person go up which means premiums go up across the board, or doctors reimbursement goes down, or coverage goes down. People on medicare now don't like those options. Doctors & hospitals don't like one of those options.

That's why one of the "medicare for all" options is to create a separate "medicare" pool with different premiums, coverage, doctor's rates, etc. than current medicare.