Reply #67: If I am not mistaken, that private insurance option would result in 2 class medicine...

[ForeignSpectator]

1st class for those who have it, the "leftovers" for those who don't. But you're right, doing it all from scratch would be very difficult. However, you'd have to get rid of that private insurance option in the long run... That is something that conservatives in some European countries defend to stay while it created a 2-class medical system.

Oh and to find a solution "that the industry could live with" is the wrong motivation to start with, imo. They have "prospered" taking lives long enough now.