Re:Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:52PM
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> As far as I know, no presidential candidate is proposing to stop people from buying private medical insurance
A couple of the variants of Medicare-for-All, including Sanders’, would prohibit normal private health insurance (they would allow private plans for certain non-core benefits, but those aren't what people talking about private medical insurance are mostly talking to about.) I mean, technically, they don't prohibit buying plans, only selling them, but...
> Even in the UK, you can get private medical insurance if you want to
As far as I know, no Presidential candidate is campaigning on a healthcare plan based even loosely on what the UK currently does.
A couple of the variants of Medicare-for-All, including Sanders’, would prohibit normal private health insurance (they would allow private plans for certain non-core benefits, but those aren't what people talking about private medical insurance are mostly talking to about.) I mean, technically, they don't prohibit buying plans, only selling them, but...
> Even in the UK, you can get private medical insurance if you want to
As far as I know, no Presidential candidate is campaigning on a healthcare plan based even loosely on what the UK currently does.