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From my experience the US health care market is not a functioning market. No price transparency, widely variable prices for the same thing, huge and inefficient bureaucracy.

It would be interesting to see if there was regulation for open pricing, billing standards and others. If that doesn't happen, Medicare for all is definitely a good option.

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I totally agree with everything you said except that last sentence. Insurance seems to be something of a failure as is. That said, MFA seems like just another insurance system. Except customers can never opt out of it, never develop a competing system, and are now bound to its inefficiencies forever.

Medicare & Medicaid has always been an option for everyone - its just that if you made too much money, then you didn't qualify. It was a safety net for the poorest people. It was not meant for students just out of school (who presumably had skills to get a job with benefits) or people who are perfectly happy not progressing or producing in their lives (which is fine, just don't demand that "society" pays for everything).

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