Letter: Medicare For All irks those who traded pay for health care

Consider a worker under a negotiated pay package that includes medical coverage rather than higher pay.

Medicare For All irks all who
traded pay for health care

While I support health care for all, I’m opposed to Medicare For All, if that includes the end of private insurance.

Consider a worker under a negotiated pay package that includes medical coverage rather than higher pay. I think that includes every U.S. government employees and most state and local government employees, many union members and more. This may comprise tens of millions of voters.

The problem is how to treat workers who put in years of work to obtain health care rather than pay and would be forced into Medicare. Will they get free Medicare as compensation? Will they be reimbursed for the years of lost income when the long-term medical they have paid for is lost? Or are they just forgotten?

Democratic candidates must not make tens of millions of workers go to the polls in 2020 with the pivotal question in their minds being Trump and my medical plan v. Democrat and unproven government healthcare.

Louie Guffanti
Kenwood

 

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