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>theres an argument for removing private insurance companies in favor of thr government

I don't see why you'd need to do that. Just expand medicare to everyone and if people want to also buy private insurance they can.

They'd just need to be more competitive and add significant value, which they don't currently do.

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And then more and more providers would opt out of taking Medicare at all, so we would quickly end up back where we started.

No, you just make it compulsory to accept Medicare.

Actually I thought that was already the case.

The "just" is doing some heavy lifting there. Clinicians aren't required to participate in Medicare; in fact they have to go through a complex process in order to join. And there's no way that such a mandate could ever pass Congress, or be effectively enforced. Let's focus on reforms that are actually achievable in the real world.

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/enrollment-renewal/providers-su...

Seems to me you're more interested in finding problems than solutions.

Every other developed country has managed it so why don't you look to see how they achieved it?

Wouldn't you like to never worry about healthcare costs again?

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