This is what Bernie's campaign is putting out even as he has no path.

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9. He's wanting to have the illusion of a single payer plan

While actually giving the insurance industry a huge boost and I imagine they'll line his pockets for it.

Anyone who has Medicare knows you need supplemental (PRIVATE) health insurance policies to get it to work worth a damn. Even then, those extra policies are not enough to cover everything that even the average retiree with a moderate chronic condition needs to stay healthy.

I have multiple relatives on Medicare, most of whom are diabetic. They all have multiple supplemental policies that they pay for out of pocket. And they all wind up taking turns going to Mexico to get the medications that they all need. My mother routinely comes back with hundreds of dollars worth of meds for herself and the other relatives who will go in a few more months to spend hundreds for meds again. Because it's still cheaper for them to get those meds in Mexico than it is to get them on Medicare here in the US.

They also go to Mexico for dental care, because Medicare doesn't cover that and it's cheaper, still, to pay out of pocket in Mexico for dental work than it is to pay the premiums for a supplemental policy and then shell out the deductibles & co-pays on top of that.