If we go to a Medicare For All system there would be no need for a marketplace, since we would all have the same health insurance.
Since it was required in the ACA law that Congress had to purchase their health insurance plan on the marketplace - why do you believe the same requirement that Congress have Medicare For All would not also be law?
What if I don’t want the same insurance? My current plan is much better than what medicare has to offer. Why would I want my coverage to be diminished?
I misunderstood your post. I thought you were saying you would choose to stay on your insurance instead of going on Medicare For All.
I have no idea why you think Medicare isn’t as good as what you have now. My mother is 89 and on Medicare. All her doctors are at the Cleveland Clinic (which is comparable in prestige to the Mayo Clinic.)
All of my own doctors take Medicare patients, too.
Most of my friends are also on Medicare and I’ve yet to hear one complaint or that they’ve had to switch providers.
I would also assume that, just like Medicare in its present form, one will be able purchase supplemental insurance - which pays out what isn’t covered under regular Medicare.
Because on average medicare only pays for about 50 percent of medical costs. It should me my choice. The feds should not be permitted to force me into a plan that I don’t want. If they want to force us into anything, they should be forcing us into the exact same plan that they have.
What if your company gives you the heave-ho? Or what if you become sick and have to stop working?
What if you just don’t want to work anymore and enjoy life, travel, grandchildren, a hobby?
But if you want to work until they day you die, far be it from me to tell you not to.
I also will have fabulous insurance after H retires but Medicare will still be our primary. His govt insurance plan will become secondary. I assume that is what retired Congresspersons and federal govt employees have also.
Your company might have something similar for retirees.