A not so modest proposal. Lets assume HC passes. What if everyone immediately dropped their private coverage and used every possible health care service available.
Sort of a reverse Cloward-Piven Strategy
Can’t, the plan doesn’t actually begin for four more years. Only the tax collection for healthcare starts immediately.
I'd say definitely think this through carefully first. Not having private insurance does not mean you can automatically get public health care, since those programs are means-tested.
For Medicaid, you'd pretty much have to blow through your assets first. Do you really want to do that?
Also, if a significant number of people stop paying for private medical insurance, those companies would collapse and the government would be forced to intervene. The result: single-payer healthcare.