Eli5: Medicare buy in to the ACA / “public option”

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My brain can’t comprehend what this would do and how it would work. Also, does this lower health care costs? How? Why?

What is this “public option”?

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Medicare is a government healthcare program. While seniors make payments, the program’s healthcare costs more than that, so taxes on younger workers are needed to pay for the program.

If “medicare for all who pay” would depend on how much people pay. If the new people pay the full price of their care, it will not reduce their healthcare costs. If to new people pay what seniors pay, it will save them a lot of money. Of course, that savings would mean more taxes for everyone.

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