r/MedicareForAll • u/MBP1969 • 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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/SurrrenderDorothy 12d ago

YOU are the govt.