Chris Murphy has put forward a plan that I've liked in some form for a long time: Medicare buy-in for everyone. I actually prefer something closer to Brian Schatz's plan, which is Medicaid buy-in for all, but that would require taking Medicaid back from the states to really work. Sanders plan would be so disruptive that even if you could pass it, it would cause a backlash so severe that you'd have 2010 all over again.
A Medicaid/Medicare buy-in would cause private insurance to slowly wither on the vine as more people and companies transitioned to a cheaper, better form of insurance. Once you reach a critical mass, then you make it tax based rather than payroll based.
The reason we didn't have a public option in the first place was because odious shitsucking troll Joe Lieberman killed it.
I still hate that guy.
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