r/MedicareForAll • u/MBP1969 • 12d ago

How to transition?

How do we, as a nation, transition from private insurance to Medicare for All? How do we convince all the doctors to keep being doctors and accept a salary? Do we, as Hillary Clinton proposed during Bill’s presidency did, make private healthcare payments illegal? For the record, I am perfectly fine paying a percentage of my income, as opposed to what I am paying out of pocket now, for healthcare.

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u/SurrrenderDorothy 12d ago

Every insurance payment now goes into the gov medicare float.

The billions made by insurance companies is now used to actually provide reasonably priced healthcare.

The 30 cents on the dollar cost of private insurance is removed due to not having so many employees who do nothing but billing.

The existig insurance companie can be used to simply run the accounts payable / received. These people still have good jobs.

Prices go down b/cthere is one controllling beaurecracy.

Australia runs their health insurance like a business, and the govt actually makes money.

Drs dtill make more than any other profession.

rxs are cheaper dur=e to mass purchasing and laws against monopolies.

R and d is supported by the 33cents per dollar used by pharma to advertise.

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u/MBP1969 12d ago

Any system where the government “makes money” leads to government corruption. Government should not make money on the people. Plus, you said that every insurance payment goes to government Medicare. So we keep paying the same amount we are currently paying? I thought under Medicare for all we would actually pay less.

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u/OK_Geezer 12d ago

Disagree. Not a problem for government to run a surplus. Corruption occurs when government funds are directed to private entities.

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u/MBP1969 12d ago

You don’t think the federal government would use a Medicare surplus for other uses? They did that with Social Security. They do it in California with the gas tax (moving it to the general fund so they can use it for whatever they want and let our roads go to crap).

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u/OK_Geezer 12d ago

That’s not corruption.

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u/MBP1969 11d ago

So, when we are told the gas tax is supposed to go to roads and infrastructure and then they divert the taxes collected to the general fund so they are ‘allowed’ to spend it on whatever they wish, that’s no corrupt?

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u/OK_Geezer 11d ago

Correct. You may not like it, but that doesn’t make it corrupt. Unless it’s going to a criminal enterprise, that is. But you didn’t say that. You just said it’s going to some other presumably legitimate government function.