Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "Medicare For All Not Humble Enough For Pete Buttigieg" video.

Everytime he speaks it sounds just like Hillary Clinton telling us we have to be pragmatic and not try to do important things.
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Medicare and Medicaid today are the highest risk pools in our society. Today private sector insurance companies cherry pick the healthiest people. Pete is offering you a public option on the ACA so you can buy into the high risk pool of government insurance. No one wants that. What we want is single payer Medicare for All so that the risk pool is 100% of the society and the costs are covered by our progressive tax code not our individual buy in.
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Because he is a corporate tool.
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@TG-bz3wu correct plus a public option will incentivize corporations to drop their health insurance benefits to be less cost effective for their employees hoping to force them onto the public option and save their payment on the health insurance benefit.
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@1drummer172 name one country which has the same plan Pete wants. Because I don't know one country which has the private sector and the government competing for the same coverage. I know of countries where you can buy additional health insurance for things not covered by the government single payer system but not one example where you would opt out of the government single payer plan and buy private sector insurance which covers the same issues. If you are trying to argue that you can buy supplemental insurance in some single payer systems them you are making a false argument because Bernie Sanders Medicare for All allows you to buy supplemental insurance to cover anything not covered by Medicare.
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@EconomistGI interesting I didn't realize how the system in Germany is setup. But it sounds like a very heavily regulated private sector. From what you said it soulds like a method for the wealthy to dodge some of the progressive costs of being on the same payment plan as the public system. But thanks for the information I would have to learn more about it to say for sure but given how much the USA is anti regulation I definitely don't see the system you described working here. Honestly if we had half of the regulations you described here we wouldn't have the out of control system today causing medical bankruptcy.
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