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If she wants (she doesn't) to see 5 docs and have 10 expensive tests every day, day in and day out, no one will stop her and Washington will keep paying. The problem with traditional Medicare is that no one stops you from using as many healthcare services as your heart desires.

You get the service and Uncle Sam pays the fee, or most of it.

The Republican version is Medicare Part C, also known as Medicare Advantage. The Democrat's version is traditional Medicare (Parts A, B, and D). When you add up all the direct government payments for Medicare, Medicare, and Obamacare and include the huge tax subsidy to employer-based healthcare, you find that roughly 60 cents of every healthcare dollar spent in this country comes out of Uncle Sam's pocket, either directly or indirectly.īefore outlining a Sanders’s Medicare for All plan that both the Democrats, including Sanders, and the Republicans, including, say, Donald Trump, should love and that is highly affordable, let me point out that we now have two versions of Medicare in place - a version designed by Democrats and a version designed by Republicans. already has, to a large extent, a single-payer system. When Sanders references a single payer system, many of the public equate this with a total government takeover of our healthcare sector. And for those concerned about too much government, most of these foreign healthcare systems use private-sector provision, rather than having the government micro manage each and every health-sector decision. They didn't do this and the NY Times reporter failed, it seems, to ask them about the Swiss or any other healthcare system that delivers excellent care at the far lower price that Sanders is referencing.