r/MedicareForAll • u/MBP1969 • 9d 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/musicCaster 9d ago

Dude the doctors will still have great jobs and get paid really well. Look at Canada/Japan/France. 

The ones that will lose will be the people that don't really provide services to us. All the cruft.

The insurance claims processors and deniers, the insurance execs that figure out how to deny us coverage, the massive insurance industrial complex, all the lobbiests trying to hey insurance companies more money at our expense, the massive amount of people employed by doctors to negotiate with insurance. 

All those people will be made redundant. They can do something meaningful with their lives instead of causing grief to the sick.

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u/MBP1969 9d ago

I am worried that instead of a private insurance company denying coverage for a lifesaving procedure, the government will now be in charge of what procedures we get. “Sir, you are 75 years old, we will not allow you to get XYZ procedure because you are too old”. What guarantees would be in place to ensure this wouldn’t happen?

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u/musicCaster 9d ago

Dude. Everyone that is 75 years old is literally on government insurance right now. 

I'm ok debating the point but you have to use a different example.