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I don't believe Warren supports M4A, which is a big difference. She signed onto the bill, but doesn't push it. Here's one article pointing out how glaring this omission is: Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for Everything — Except Health Care
You might be right, because I do find it a source of apprehension given her shaky backing of it recently despite strong initial support. My current view is she does, but seeks to keep her position vague in an attempt not to scare off 'moderates', though I certainly have suspicions that she would not follow through; another reason I prefer Bernie to her. I refuse to be fooled again as per Obama 2008 who pathetically couldn't even deliver the public option.
Bottom line is I don't think the Bernie proposal of just making the age limit for existing Medicare start at birth is a good model. Even in relatively small countries, most 'single payer' systems have regional more or less autonomous systems. Canada has 'single payer' but it's run by each province, and they are different. We have 10 times the population (more or less) as Canada, but the Bernie proposal from what I can see is ONE system.
Yes, in Canada, the particulars are decided on a per-province basis, but ultimately they are accountable to an overriding federal minimum.
The UK NHS system by contrast is more monolithic though also having regional administrations, and it outperforms ours in terms of both cost efficiency and results, despite recent conservative efforts to underfund and privatize it.
Polls show support for M4A but IMO that isn't real. Lots of people love their insurance at work, and when you give them the numbers about how much in additional taxes they'll need to pay to get M4A, and then tell them that they'll have to 'trust' their employer to make that up with higher wages from the burden lifted from them by a single payer system, they'll balk.
The latest polls that ask whether they'd be willing to support MFA despite higher taxes have thus far come back in favour of MFA: CNN Poll: Most think the government should provide a national health insurance program - CNNPolitics
The idea that it would completely replace private insurance is less popular, but fortunately, no MFA/SP system actually does that (nor would Sanders'), so no worries.
I'd love to get to something like single payer, but I just don't think the existing "Medicare for all" proposals are feasible or well thought out, actually.
I'm not sure what's specifically unfeasible about them beyond perhaps achieving sufficient political capital given all the Libermanesque shills currently polluting both parties. As to the concept, I'm largely only leerly about the speed of rollout, though I do think there should be some level of co-pay, even if means adjusted. Having said that, I have no doubt that any MFA bill will see substantial mutation and revision well before passage and rollout.
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