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Can A “Public Option” Health Insurance Plan Actually Work?
Would private insurance actually allow it?
Of all the issues that the average American in the United States faces, it would be fair to suggest healthcare is among the most serious. The profit motives that drive our current health insurance system have led to a system that remains arguably unsustainable, and thanks largely to Bernie Sanders there has been a renewed conversation on what sort of healthcare system the nation actually needs.
Famously, Bernie Sanders has campaigned on the national stage continuously since 2015 for a Medicare for All, single payer system. Kamala Harris, a fellow presidential candidate who claimed to be an advocate for Medicare for All, signed on as a cosponsor of Bernie’s bill. The bill would effectively do away with private health insurance, make healthcare free at the point of service, and over the course of four years transition the United States in to a country with government run insurance that provides full coverage. Recently however, as many of us know Kamala Harris has changed her tone, and come out with her own “Medicare for All” plan.
Under Kamala’s plan that she calls Medicare for All, her proposed ten year transition phase would eventually result in a dual private and public health insurance system, commonly referred to as just…
