Reply #12: ....In going after Medicare, the insurance interests ultimate goal is to KILL Single Payer FOREVER :

[Faryn Balyncd]

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The most pragmatic route (perhaps the only realistic route to a Single Payer universal access system) is to allow younger Americans to opt-in/nuy/in to Medicare, our most successsful (near) Single Payer program.

But if Medicare is privatized through the Emanuel/Fuchs plan, (which specifically calls for the elimination of Medicare, replacing it for future retirees with a mandated purchase of a private plan, supported by vouchers for "basic, specified" services, vouchers which could be easily frozen by a future Republican administration or Congress in the face of escalating private insurance rates), then there would be no public option for younger Americans to opt-in to.