What would have been the negatives?

[OwnedByFerrets]

It seems to me that this entire Health Care discussion should have been carried out in this manner. "We are going to expand Medicare to anyone who wants it". Period, end of story.

Then the job would have been to show how Medicare works for the ones who have it now and how it would work the same for all.

I understand that the "reason" this isn't being done is because of the insurance lobby, but wouldn't this have been a much better way to propose change?

Since MANY of the ones screaming against health care reform are actually ON medicare now, it would have been simple to ask them "if it works for YOU, why are you screaming?"

I guess I think too simplistically.