The missing debate discussion of the ramp-up timeline for Medicare for All approaches

[gulliver]

I watched both debates, and one thing I didn't see from the candidates supporting some form of Medicare for All is the ramp-up plan. Let's assume we can get the bill passed. What happens on day one after it passes? The private plans just disappear and sick people just go to the doctor? What if they are already at the doctor? Who pays the doctor?

Somebody needs to paint a picture of what the ramp-up is. What happens in the real world. A real plan needs a real timeline or it's not a plan; it's just a goal. A real plan takes us from where we are to where we want to be. It doesn't just say where we want to be and hope we can get there from where we are.

Maybe the ramp-up has been discussed or is documented and I've just missed it. If so, I'm ready to be educated. I do know I don't recall seeing it discussed in the debates so far by the Medicare for All proponents.

I have seen the ramp up to single payer addressed on the side that advocates ObamaCare 2.0 plus public option. It's a natural. People are given a choice of buying into (subsidized if they can't afford it) a public option. It would be similar to Medicare Advantage. It would therefore plug right into all of our existing health care delivery processes. No confusion for anyone. If the private companies can't beat the Medicare Advantage public option (although the private plans would also be subsidized for affordability), then they slowly fade away. Businesses, for example, would be foolish not to buy into the public option for their employees if it were both better and cheaper.

[oasis]

1. Biden, so far has the best plan. MFA won't fly, neither will it's cobbled

together offspring.

Let's see where we are after 4 years of a Democratic Administration. Pushing MFA into the G.E. right now would surely cost us votes and risk our chances of getting anything.