How are you not getting it? Bernie's policy proposal does not eliminate private insurance. If it did, us taxpayers would have to fund someone's cosmetic surgery. That's a fact. Never did I say that private insurance would be competing with the government Medicare. It would purely be supplemental. In that sense yes, you can pretty much say it's being eliminated. It's not in truth, but you can pretty much say it is.
Folks saying they want to keep their existing coverage is only a thing because the media frames it the way you just did.
What does it mean to like your coverage? It means that you like your doctor, your health care center, whether ER is close by, etc... Jesus christ you're stubborn. I know this is how it is first hand because my family has had their private insurance changed multiple times. Each time meant we needed a different doctor, we had to change where we can access the ER without extra fees, where we have to visit that doctor (now it's a lot farther away), etc... When it comes to dental I've had to go to almost a dozen different dentists when I was growing up because of private insurance.
Explain why you like your private insurance. Is it not because of where you go to see a doctor, where you go for ER, or where you go to dentist or eye specialist? Why do you think people can't have their private insurance changed on a whim by their employer? Literally the private insurance industry as we know it does not give you choice a lot of times. That's a lie that needs to be called out.
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