The Sanders bill hasn’t been scored by the Congressional Budget Office, but researchers at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center released a widely circulated study that projected the Medicare for All Act would increase federal spending by $32 trillion. Though Sanders has touted a part of the study saying that overall private and public health spending could be reduced by $2 trillion, that assumes the plan would cut reimbursement hospitals and doctors currently receive from private health insurance by 40 percent, given that Medicare pays lower rates.
This approach will not only receive backlash from insurance and drug companies, which Sanders attacks in his op-ed, but by hospitals -- and would likely lead to significant problems with access. The plan Sanders has put forward goes further than the current Medicare system and than those offered in other countries through the range of medical services it would cover and by doing away with all copays.
Democrats don’t need no stinkin’Constitution!
What? In Canada, people can still purchase private coverage if they want.
Only in the land of the free, you won’t be allowed to do it - or keep your current plan if you like it.
That’s what they don’t tell you about BernieCare, among other things.
Pure Marxist Liberal insanity.
No thanks. I can’t afford this free stuff.
Medicare for all would accelerate the physician workforce decline.
Quite a few physicians over 50 would retire early and many independent physicians would drop Medicare. Most remaining physicians would become employees. Employed physicians typically see 20% fewer patients than their self-employed colleagues.
Any further legislation “forcing” physicians to accept Medicare would only exacerbate and reduce the workforce.
Just wait until a debt-bubble burst, meets socialist spending plans and street organizing
Bolivia here we come!
And give us all the same great service we’ve come to expect from The VA~!!
I received this email and just ‘passing it on’.
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President Trump is against their GRAVY TRAIN! That is why so many of the Congress are retiring.
They hope to keep their Retirement as it stands now.
The Plan, Fat Chance?
We can only hope!
T his makes too much sense not to be passed on. But at least we can make our wishes known and hope. I’m with Trump on this one and always will be.
President Trump is asking everyone to forward this email to a minimum of 20 people, and to ask each one of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in the United States will have the message. This is why the idea that should be passed around, regardless of Political Party.
The Trump Rule’s Congressional Reform Act of 2018:
1 – NO TENURE / NO PENSION. A Congressman/Woman, collects a salary while in office and receives No Pay when they’re Out Of Office. No More Perks Go With Them.
2 – Congressman/Woman (Past, Present & Future) participate in Social Security. All Funds in the Congressional Retirement Fund Move To The Social Security System Immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security System and Congress participates with the American People. It may not be used for any other purposes.
3 – Congress must purchase their own Retirement Plan, just as all Americans do.
4 – Congress will No Longer Vote Themselves a Pay Increase. Congressional Pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5 – Congress loses their current Healthcare System and participates in the same Healthcare System as the American People.
6 – Congress must equally abide by all the Laws they impose on the American People.
7 – All contracts with Past and Present Congressman/Woman are Void. The American People did not make this Contract with Congressmen/Women. Congress made all these Contracts For Themselves.
Serving in Congress is an Honor, Not a Career. The Founding Fathers envisioned Citizen Legislators should serve their Terms, then go home and go back to work and not get all kinds of Freebies!
NO WONDER THEY’RE FIGHTING EVERYTHING HE TRIES!
If EACH PERSON CONTACTS A MINIMUM OF TWENTY PEOPLE, THEN IT WILL ONLY TAKE THREE DAYS FOR MOST PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES TO RECEIVE THE MESSAGE. IT’S TIME FOR US TO TAKE ACTION NOW!
Medicare is already bankrupt, this would simply speed up the process.
Here’s and interesting part I did not know, and probably many others here don’t as well.
Supposedly Medicare is going broke in eight years. My wife can get insurance for us as part of her retirement plan for about $1100 a month. By the time you buy Part B, C, D, Z whatever for Medicare, it will cost us about $400 and some change a month. Since it’s going broke and we can afford it, we’ll just buy our own.
We also neither have applied for Social Security yet since they will give you 8% per year for every year you wait till 70. As we are both approaching that number, we stated our preparations to file.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
During the time the ‘bent one’ (Clintoon) infested the oval office, he somehow got a rule in place that if you collect Social Security, you must go on Medicare! So here is a program that is going broke, and even if you can and are willing to pay your own way, you’ll have to give up Social Security to have the right to buy your own healthcare.
The obvious intent to all of this is to destroy ANY form of private healthcare. Thank God we did not end up with another member of that family of liberal idiots in the White House!
Once employee withholding to pay for cost sharing of health insurance became greater than federal tax withholding, the government became a curiously interested party regarding my healthcare.
No politician would lose their Blue Chip taxpayer provided premium health care, you can bet your 
(ASS)that our elected officials and their government lackeys as well as the wealthy will always have private health care plans while we the unwashed taxpayer will be told what is best for us by our employees.
But like the rest of the world with socialized medicine, it will not do away with private healthcare.
Those with the means will still be able to pay for their preferred doctor, and private hospitals will flourish.
Perfect example is the U.K. where there public NHS-run hospitals and private hospitals.
Guess where the best and the brightest practice medicine?
Acosta cannot read, anyway.
I’m sure it also allows for dwindling eligibility for aggressive treatment for most age related disease processes; plus, don’t participate in the government’s “preventative health guidelines”? -— no treatment for YOU!
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I have one question. How is this paid for if everyone who used to buy private insurance is now getting it for free?