Originally Posted by
BobTheCoward
They want to make Medicare 4 all and also completely change Medicare. Meanwhile there is a program that already does this called Medicaid (and actually knows how to do things like cover healthy adults under 65).
As I see it, Medicare for all is just the slogan being used to sell single payer. Of course a lot of changes will be made in the process of implementing it. The primary advantage of single payer over ACA is that under single payer, the government will have a lot more leverage to get a handle on costs. Of course, if they go too far in cost cutting, quality of care may suffer.