No one smart uses Medicare, instead they use Medicare advantage, which is private health insurance funded by the government.

This is the part people don't understand when they promote Medicare for all - it's a really really bad plan, that people don't use unless they have no choice.

This should be the death nail in these proposals, except the people proposing it typically don't even realize the difference.

Medicare for all is a horrible idea.

Government funded private health insurance for all is a good idea.

I'm on MediCal, California's version of Medicare. Just want to say thanks for mentioning that. I had never heard of it before. I'm a young person who is also unemployed, and an orphan. Medi-Cal has been kafka-esque in how terrible it is. I relate it to therapists and doctors at the quality of school counselors and nurses, it's third rate care and it's practically made me lose all hope in getting treatment for chronic abdominal pain I've had for over a year and a half. I've been churning through doctors because they are so unprofessional to be flat out useless. One doctor straight up told me "so what do you want me to do about it?", And that's only one incident among many of the bad experiences I've had with it.

So to add on to what you've said, yes medicare is nightmarish. Hopefully this offers me a new chance to live a life.

It's late and I just realized MediCal is medicaid, not medicare. These program names are so confusing. Going to let out a large sigh and get some sleep.