Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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Lemon Drop wrote:
Thanks Janit great points.

I read through the Senate bill. The idea is to get people 50 to 64 off the Obamacare exchanges. You qualify if you qualify for Medicare except for your age. And you pay a premium until you get to age 65. The premium payments would go into the Medicare trust fund. Subsidies would be available as they are under the ACA.

As I understand it this would be more cost effective for the government than what we're doing now.

I see that Sen. Sanders is not one of the Bill's sponsors, I assume he still wants Medicare for all?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-cong...format=txt

What he wants is not really Medicare for All but he's just rolling with that vernacular because it's popular. Nothing proposed in his Medicare for All Bill resembles the current Medicare program. He wants nothing less than single payer with no costs borne upon the general public. He's adamant about that. No private insurance could be sold that would duplicate government services. You are enrolled at birth.

It would be awesome if it could happen. H's trying to dunk the basketball but he can't get close enough to the hoop. Our country is simply too divided and manipulated to accomplish this. People that fought to win the healthcare they have now don't want to give it up.

This is a good rundown of his plan. I think it's important to fully understand it. Even his diehard followers don't understand it. That frustrates him.

Here’s what Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ proposal actually says
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/03/...annotated/