(04-23-2019, 07:08 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-22-2019, 10:23 PM)Ronster Wrote: Medicare as it is today consist of three parts.


Part A (Inpatient Hospital, SNF, Hospice)[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]
Part B (Other medical services, MD visits, DME, ECT) 
Part D ( Prescription Medicine)[/font]
[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Part C is a combination of all three elements, usually all three)[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Medicare part A, you have a $1,364 (2019) Deductible for each new occurrence where you are admitted into hospital. The taxpayer pays the difference.
Medicare part B, you have a 20% coinsurance to pay every time you go to the MD, get crutches, have outpatient surgery. The taxpayer pays the 80%
Medicare part D, prescription drug coverage. YOU MUST PURCHASE A DRUG PLAN or you will be penalized.[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Now, that is a lot of out pocket cost if you do not have insurance in the form of supplement or an Advantage plan or some retirement plan. Even, with most insurance plans you will have some out of pocket cost in the form of co pays or premiums; or both. Only special needs, dual eligible Medicaid/Medicare recipients get zero OOP cost.[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]What Bernie is selling is NOT MEDICARE[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Ol Bernie says, he is going to get rid of insurance companies and that the cost for your services will be ZERO.[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I saw a poll that said that 31% of Republicans were in favor of "Medicare For All"[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Are you freaking kidding me? We will lose Doctors, and we will have crazy long wait times. Our level of care will deteriorate and we will go broke as a country. Even more so than we already are, much more.[/font]

[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Please anyone, please tell me how this could possibly work?[/font]

You're right that Bernie seems to be selling a system where everything is paid for by the government.
and you're right that Medicare doesn't work that way now. It leaves the patient still having to pay some things.
Would you object to simply expanding Medicare, the way it works now, to cover more adults?

Heres a good article explaining the different things that Democrats are proposing https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18103087/...rs-jayapal

And here is a good article showing how other countries have addressed these types of problems:
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2019/2/1...is-sanders