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In reply to the discussion: Why is it that so many people who are ON Medicare, and by-and-large love it....... [View all]demigoddess
(6,640 posts)66. agree with you. We are over 65 and use Medicare.I am all for Medicare for all.
But we really should have universal health care. 1. health insurance raises prices so much to make profits. 2. once I heard a doctor on radio said he was injured and went to scanning place and said how about an appointment and I'll pay cash. He got right in for 1500. When he asked why it cost so much to go through insurance company, they said it is because they have to hire people to ask, ask, ask, from insurance companies because they always refuse over and over the first times. If we transfer that same idea to Medicare for All, we are going to shoot ourselves in the foot. and we need to control drug companies.
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Why is it that so many people who are ON Medicare, and by-and-large love it....... [View all]
scheming daemons
Feb 2019
OP
If Medicare For All becomes reality, then companies will no longer give health care benefits
FakeNoose
Feb 2019
#70
And that's not just Medicare. It's "I'm white and european, and I got mine." Get out of my country.
erronis
Feb 2019
#39
agree with you. We are over 65 and use Medicare.I am all for Medicare for all.
demigoddess
Feb 2019
#66
The OP specifically referred to GOP voters, which in that case I think the OP is correct,
ooky
Feb 2019
#69
because they are afraid that by adding in people who haven't been paying in for years
dsc
Feb 2019
#3
Yes, they are afraid they will be short-changed. What they don't understand is that everybody else
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#17
But any medicare-for-all plan would have those under 65 paying into the plan
scheming daemons
Feb 2019
#13
Most people I know who are on Medicare want everyone else to have it
PoindexterOglethorpe
Feb 2019
#7
I had private insurance and then got Medicare. I see no difference at all, in fact, Medicare
Raven
Feb 2019
#14
Medicare-for-All means no more employer paid insurance. Now if you are talking Public Option, that's
Hoyt
Feb 2019
#35
If they still work, in most cases the employer plan is still primary. You are missing the point,
Hoyt
Feb 2019
#45
I saw a 'why are drugs so $$$' today and a Dumper said, 'Because we have to pay for the ones who get
CurtEastPoint
Feb 2019
#18
Part of it is because we've been paying into it for 50 years and it works. Perhaps....
George II
Feb 2019
#43
Brainwashing and incessant false arguments. I agree with the underlying premise, we are
c-rational
Feb 2019
#52
I hear/read you. But managed care greatly reduced the rate paid to providers, stopped them from
Hoyt
Feb 2019
#56
Truthfully, I think you have term "managed competition" -- which was Reagan and GOPers' BS answer to
Hoyt
Feb 2019
#87
We're on Medicare and appreciate the health insurance. We pay about $120 each for Medicare. Yet,
CharleyDog
Feb 2019
#54