Pete Buttigieg's plan for Medicare-for-all-who-want-it, explained

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Pete Buttigieg has released his first detailed health care plan on Thursday, designed to expand coverage, lower costs and offer Medicare “for all who want it” while stopping short of the single-payer Medicare-for-all overhaul preferred by Bernie Sanders.

In this presidential primary, center-left candidates like Buttigieg have been obliged to explain how they would expand US health care if they aren’t willing to endorse the Medicare-for-all plan supported by Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, which would set up a single government insurance plan to cover every American. Buttigieg’s agenda shares some of the same ideas that Joe Biden supports. He aims to achieve universal coverage through the introduction of a public option and more subsidies for private insurance, building off the existing system instead of razing it to the ground as a single-payer plan would.

Buttigieg is emphasizing choice — thus “Medicare for all who want it,” his spin on Sanders’s “Medicare for all” slogan — in laying out an agenda that allows employer-sponsored and individual private insurance to remain but gives all Americans the option of joining a government health program.

“The problem, Senator Sanders, with that damn bill that you wrote, and that Senator Warren backs is that it doesn’t trust the American people,” Buttigieg said at last week’s debate. “I trust you to choose what makes the most sense for you, not my way or the highway.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/pete-buttigiegs-plan-for-medicare-for-all-who-want-it-explained/ar-AAHwU9o?li=BBnbfcN

[Voltaire2]

1. "More subsidies for private insurance".

Ka-ching.

Hey how’s about instead of handing buckets of tax dollars to HealthCo we instead invested in a comprehensive universal public health insurance system that covers everyone from birth to death?

[Voltaire2]

2. Oh and who the fork has a choice about

what crappy insurance their employer bothers to provide?

[KPN]

3. I don't see how this will work in the long run. The insurance industry and GOP will find ways to

neuter it in the long run, just as they have with the ACA. In the end, we will end up with Medicare for All because this too will fail to provide affordable access to quality medical care for all.

I think Buttigieg just lost me. He is a remarkable person in many ways, but this is a problem as far as my support goes. We really do need to get money out of politics.