Biden this week: defund police, end all charter schools, citizen. for all DACA, Med.ForAll

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he anti trump suburban republicans on this board- tejashorn, Mickey, etc- are delusional that biden will fight the left of his party

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Time is running out.

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Time is running out.

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Dude. It’s the beginning of July.
Election is 120 days away.
That’s several lifetimes in political land.

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He’s also, you know, running a country and all.

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texridder

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The quickest way you get [to single-payer] is you create competition with the insurers. God bless the insurers, if they want to compete, they can certainly try, but they've never put people over their profits, and I doubt they ever will. So what will happen is people will choose Medicare, you will transition, we will get to Medicare for all, and then your step to single-payer is so short.

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You take something like Medicare, a flavor of that, you make it available on the exchanges, people can buy in. And then if people like us are right, that that will be not only a more inclusive plan, but a more efficient plan than any of the corporate answers out there, then it will be a very natural glide path to the single-payer environment.

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a public option would have several unfair advantages over private insurers. For starters, it wouldn't have to cover its costs. It could offer coverage at cut-rate prices and count on the federal Treasury to fill in the gaps if payouts to providers exceed the premiums it takes in.

Second, a public option would have the ability to dictate the prices it's willing to pay for care. Doctors and hospitals would have little choice but to accept the government's offer.

Most public option plans envision paying healthcare providers about what Medicare pays them. Doctors currently receive 25 percent less from Medicare than from people with private coverage.

The freedom to lose money and the ability to dictate reimbursement rates would give the public option an artificially low cost structure. So it'd be able to underprice private plans -- and steal their customers. One study found that a public option would cause 70 percent of people to drop their private coverage. Another study found that a national public option would enroll over 40 million people in its first year alone.

That would set the stage for private insurance's destruction. As providers began treating more and more low-paying public option patients, they'd likely raise prices for the privately insured to compensate. Insurers would pass those costs onto their customers in the form of higher premiums. That would push yet more people into the public option. And the cycle would repeat.

Eventually, there'd be no one left for private insurers to cover. So they'd go out of business. One study found that 20 percent of state marketplaces would not have a private insurance option within eight years of a public option taking effect.

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