[bumby]

>maintaining the status quo is just as, if not more, selfish than protesting the system with a non-payment.

The point was that your approach won’t change the status quo, just makes it a little more expensive for everyone else.

[antisthenes]

I'm all ears for an alternate approach that:

1. Changes the status quo

2. Provides more health care to more people at lower costs (this requires health insurance folks to lose their jobs en masse. Sorry not sorry kind of a thing)

3. Is politically tenable to be enacted within the current generation (e.g. in time for Millenials to benefit from it in retirement)

[bumby]

Me too, I just don’t think what you suggested is it (or a net positive for anyone but yourself).

My current preference is to 1) start with covering veterans completely at the VA and 2) have Medicare for all phased in over decades by gradually lowering the qualifying age. The first is generally politically feasible and will help identify appropriate problems of scale and the second is slow enough to allow the system to adapt but also help the current generation of younger workers by the time they tend to need more healthcare