Crazy Bernie is lying to everyone, again. Medicare for all would never stay because the government can't afford it. Taxes would have to skyrocket in order to maintain some part of it. The only thing they would be able to do Medicaid (aka welfare). I work for a doctor's office (an optometrist). Medicare covers little to none when it comes to coverage towards vision visits, medical visits, and nothing for glasses. Here's how it breaks down: Medicare will cover towards the vision visit, but not the refraction (in a nutshell, the prescribing of the glasses). Medical visits, we are told, by Medicare, to bill the patient 20% and bill them the 80% balance. "Oh well, that's not bad", yeah, but then it turns bad when the patient receives notices from Medicare that they are NOT covering either half or the entire bill that was sent to them. Medicare does NOTHING for glasses, unless if you had cataract surgery ONLY 1 time. If you have to have more surgery on your cataracts later on, you're out of luck. "If this is true, why would they do that?" You have to take into account it was originally intended for seniors, not the entire country. They have to help cover towards medications, medical devices for at home, rehab, etc. Also they have to pay the doctors, but the problem is Medicare underpays them. Doctors have no choice, because of insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid, raise their prices in order to stay in business and to make a living. On top of all that is taxes because it's taxpayer funded, and taxes would have to be raised substantially in order to keep it going. It would all have to be the same plan too. You can't get any better plans other than what was proposed (which would be less than mediocre). With all these components lined, Medicare for all would not work.
Now, whenever someone like Crazy Bernie says Medicare for all, they actually mean Medicaid (welfare) for all. Like Medicare, but much worse. Plans are abysmal, you don't get the medications you need, you don't get the devices need, and they still tax you into oblivion. On top of all that, you're at the governments mercy even more so than with Medicare (at least there's some wiggle room there). For my field, they only have a certain selection to pick from when it comes to a complete pair of glasses. 99% of all Medicaid plans will not cover: no line bifocals (of any kind, yes there's more than one), aspheric lenses, ultra thin lenses, transitions (light to dark outdoors, dark to light indoors), solid tints, contact lenses (both the fitting and boxes of contact lenses), blu tech, polishing, semi rimless and completely rimless frames, and frames that are not under the plan. To be fair, that 1% can help cover SOME of that after a copay (and the copay is almost at the original price of the product, so it hardly does anything). They will cover the basics, but many patients' problems can not be solved with the basics (well less than basic, we're talking cheap quality). "Well surely they can cover more", no, that's all they can afford. Either they cover what they're covering now, or make everyone's taxes skyrocket well over 90% (and it will be everybody, not just the rich). Again, Medicaid for all is what is meant when someone like Crazy Bernie says Medicare for all.
The common theme here is taxes will go up a lot on all the citizens living here. The only people that will be exempt from this would be our elected government officials. They exempted themselves from Obamacare, so this wouldn't be any different. That way people like Crazy Bernie continue to stay wealthy. Fun Facts: Crazy Bernie owns 3 homes and is under investigation (at least his wife) for bank fraud. Also, never received a check until he was 40 years old from the government. Sounds like a bum, doesn't he? Anyway, don't fall for what that guy says. He can't relate to you, never held a real job, never owned a business, never had to write a paycheck, never wants to play by the rules (look at the investigation into his alleged bank fraud), but he LOVES manipulating people to getting them to do his dirty work and playing to their emotions. He's a sack of old stinky monkey poo.
