> I think there's merit to investigating public health care. That line stops for me in eliminating private care
I haven't seen a proposal yet that would eliminate private care (or even supplementary private insurance).
I haven't seen a proposal yet that would eliminate private care (or even supplementary private insurance).
Certainly it is true, I agree, that emergency hospitals and ambulances are public-option only.
My original statement might have been more accurate had I said "fully eliminate private care and private insurance".
Certainly with medicare for all both of those would be drastically reduced. With the medicaid buy-in they would both be moderately reduced.
I still think private care and private insurance will exist under both models, but like you said, they may be different in terms of what they cover.
Hence there are VERY few private clinics in Canada except for services where the govt realized it was in their benefit to allow it (MRIs).