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Rural_Progressive

(1,107 posts)
6. Can't go that way
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 10:54 AM
Mar 2017

Have to give everyone the option of going with Medicare.

Premiums would need to be paid without subsidization for any new subscribers. Straight up competition, will a plan with a 1 to 2% administrative overhead out compete private plans with anywhere from 15 to 30% overhead? Of course it would and none of the civil servants would be making millions of dollars, buying multiple. homes, yachts, and airplanes.

It would be delightful if some brave group of democratic congresspeople would just propose it so we could listen to the rich and entitled howl with anger and fear.

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