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Turin_C3PO

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3. I'm sure people would be able to purchase private insurance

Reply to riverine (Original post)

Sat Jul 6, 2019, 01:46 PM

Jul 2019

if they wanted to go to a “better” doctor. The candidates who said they’ll abolish private insurance will walk that back, I think.

In any case, first we have to get a public option/Medicare buy-in passed and then when people see the results and like it, we can talk about a true single payer system

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Which groups of people would be exempt from Medicare For All? [View all] riverine Jul 2019 OP

SS needs to be deducted from ALL incomes 1st benld74 Jul 2019 #1

Private insurance and private doctors will never be "illegal" csziggy Jul 2019 #2

The ACA does all that without depriving me of my basic private health insurance. riverine Jul 2019 #5

Too much of the ACA has been overturned or left to individual states csziggy Jul 2019 #9

I'm sure people would be able to purchase private insurance Turin_C3PO Jul 2019 #3

medicare available for those who want it as one option. it is NOT free however nt msongs Jul 2019 #4

I support Medicare For America riverine Jul 2019 #6

The US Government will not get rid of private providers. Opel_Justwax Jul 2019 #7

There are private doctors in UK and Canada. I'm sure they will always exist here. Hoyt Jul 2019 #8

I do not want Medicare for all. Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #10

Republicans gopiscrap Jul 2019 #11

With all due respect, area51 Jul 2019 #12