"Medicare for all" does not mean free healthcare. It's paid for by taxes. You taxes become your "premium" under that system. The concept of "private health insurance" outside of supplemental insurance would not exist under that system.
> "Medicare for all" does not mean free healthcare. It's paid for by taxes.
I didn't say "free healthcare". I said "government pays 100% of costs". Yes, that means ultimately we all pay them through taxes.
> The concept of "private health insurance" outside of supplemental insurance would not exist under that system.
Under Medicare, "government pays 100% of costs" also means "government is the only provider of health insurance". But my whole point is that you don't need to do that in order for the government to use its negotiating leverage to negotiate better rates; the government can do that even if the rates it's negotiating are with private insurance providers. That's basically what the government does now for Federal employees and elected officials; they aren't on Medicare, they have a selection of private insurance plans that have negotiated rates with the government. My suggestion is to simply extend this to all citizens, so the government can negotiate even better rates since they now have a much larger pool of people to negotiate for.
