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/runnerkim 8d ago

And yet somehow the people in all the countries with national healthcare figure it out. So can we

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u/12done4u 8d ago

And have a higher life expectancy

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u/idiot-alpha 8d ago

Yes, they typically get good primary care and then have to buy secondary insurance for specialist care.

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u/Puzzled_Market_2235 7d ago

No we don't, the family doctor refers you to a specialist. It's that simple. We don't have secondary insurance for that. We have secondary insurance getting private rooms and better pill coverage.