I was on Medicare, but i am now on VA Healthcare. There is no comparison. VA is vastly better. VA healthcare is socialized medical care. The main reason I believe the VA system is better is that there is no profit motive in the VA system. The system is motivated to keep me healthy since that reduces their costs. Medicare pays for commercial healthcare, where the motive is to treat as many me's as possible - to make a profit, but no motive cure anyone.
There are many problems with employer provided for profit healthcare the first being you can't easily change employers - you soul is owed to the company store.
Any system that allows the for profit healthcare systems to black mail us for whatever we can pay is doomed to bankrupt the country.
Healthcare can only work if it is treated as a right and the industry pricing is regulated to permit reasonable profits based on results (ie. VA system) and not profit.
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