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Originally Posted by chachacha
CFrance asks where we would be without medicare? i think we would have lower medical charges and private insurance. when any organization knows the govt is going to pay for something, charges go up....look at college tuition! it is almost impossible to buy health ins if you are over 65, since they only sell supplements for medicare! i experienced this personally when my late husband could not find ins (he was not American) in this country. his excellent private european coverage would have covered him anywhere in the world except USA because of our obscene costs. we really don't know where we would have been if medicare did not come in and force everyone to be on it. as it stands now, of course, we are glad to have it because there is nothing else!
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But who paid for your late husband's excellent European health care--his government? I don't know where he is from, but that is the case in most European nations. And their health care costs are much lower than ours.
The flaw in the ACA is that a compromise had to be made so that it is not a single payer system, like Medicare.