Have you ever actually had someone on medicare navigate healthcare?
Its only partial coverage and the supplemental plans also are partial. Retirees regularly rake up thousands a year in medical expenses on medicare.
If anything we need medicaid for all. Its a total mess with the piecemeal systems that exist, but in PA at least (where I live) medicaid recipients pay like a dollar for basically any service. None of the copay nickle and diming (to the tune of $30 a pop) my grandmother is hounded with constantly.
And even that is a bitter pill. Its giving private insurance companies all the money and power still. The single payer has strong negotiating power but they still have to get someone to insure the citizenry and the cartel of insurers that exist can predate off that and do so eagerly.
Medicare For All is not just an extension of the existing Medicare. It expands it to everyone and fixes some of those holes. Medicaid would still be there for services outside MFA like senior long term care.
Its only partial coverage and the supplemental plans also are partial. Retirees regularly rake up thousands a year in medical expenses on medicare.
If anything we need medicaid for all. Its a total mess with the piecemeal systems that exist, but in PA at least (where I live) medicaid recipients pay like a dollar for basically any service. None of the copay nickle and diming (to the tune of $30 a pop) my grandmother is hounded with constantly.
And even that is a bitter pill. Its giving private insurance companies all the money and power still. The single payer has strong negotiating power but they still have to get someone to insure the citizenry and the cartel of insurers that exist can predate off that and do so eagerly.