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19. "Buy into medicare" won't work

Reply to bmichaelh (Reply #16)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:48 PM

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The sickest people will buy into Medicare and everyone else will buy private insurance, which will have lower rates since their risk pool will have had the risk moved out to Medicare.

No, the only solution is universal health care or "Medicare for all," like the rest of the industrialized world. Even Iraq has it since we built it into their new constitution. That gives the largest risk pool which means lower rates for every individual (enhanced by the absence of the billion-dollar-a-year parasites in the insurance corporate offices.)

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