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Public healthcare in the US can work. Most seniors on traditional Medicare like it. Make that available to more people, and bob's your uncle. I propose allowing buy into medicare at 5 years before regular eligibility. And a long phase in of lowering the eligibility age. Drop it by 6 months every year for 10 years, then 1 year every year for 10 years, then 2 years every year until everyone with work credits is eligible. At the same time, start covering all kids up to some age with Medicaid (after all, kids tend to have no income, so if eligibility was based on their own income instead of household income, they'd qualify). First year, kids get covered until 6 months, next year until 1 year, etc. When the Medicare and Medicaid ages meet, we have universal health care. It would take a long time to get there on my schedule, but it would be gradual, so everyone could adapt. And if future legislation could adjust the timeline as needed. Also, clearly someone needs to add more residency slots. |
Do you want Donald Trump to be in charge of public healthcare? Please stop suggesting we make all of those changes unless you're willing to say you want him to be in charge of it.