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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My company provided health insurance sucks. We are in DC have fewer than 20 employees, forced to buy insurance from DC health link. I'd welcome medicare for all.[/quote]

The idea sounds great -- something wonderful for free.

The reality, of course, is that nothing is free. Europe has higher income tax--much higher than here for the middle class--, higher payroll taxes, and a crazy 25% VAT "sales" tax on all goods and services.[/quote]
DP..  I think you are confused. Medicare is not free for everyone.  My parents are on medicare, and they pay premiums.  Medicare is only free if you are very low income, and that is how it would be for medicare for all, as well.

Short of our government regulating health care costs (which they won't do), the only other way to get costs down for individuals is to be part of a very large group that has healthier people, and that means expanding medicare access to all.  That was the intent of ACA, but the problem with ACA was that insurance companies could mandate how they structure the group. That wouldn't happen with medicare. Again, it would just be one large group, the biggest in the  market.   We can tap into that large group to cover more people.  If you don't want medicare, you don't have to take it.[/quote]

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