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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.
They would have to get any cost cutting passed, and the traditional response has always been throw more money at the corporations to get them to agree to it, be it medicare part D or ACA.