I don't think it would destroy Medicare. I was neck-deep in the mechanics of that system for years. That's what I would do.All that would achieve is to destroy Medicare.The ACA is flabby crap, and we have to stop putting band aids on everything.
Expand the current and popular Medicare / Medicare Advantage / Medicare Supplement system to all, with some tweaks. An excellent blend of a public foundation and free market choice, competition & innovation, and individual/portable so that we take a massive cost monkey off the backs of American employers.
Sadly, this solution is too obvious and would require collaboration from both whacked-out sides, something of which we are no longer capable.
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Why not reform MedicAID into a government run insurance and pro-rate the premiums based on income?
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