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To qualify for Medicaid as a Senior, you can't have ANY assets to your name, not a car, a house, or any savings whatsoever. So I should correct my statement about Seniors going on Medicaid. It's not when they can't afford Medicare, it's when they become completely destitute.

Hi there! You have a lot of questions! I’m going to try to answer all of them, so let me know if I miss any. First, your last tweet about qualifying for Medicaid is exactly correct. We went through that process with my grandmother before she died. It was horrible.

I am in favor of eliminating profit from the healthcare industry in a broad sense. But I am not in favor of banning or eliminating supplemental health insurance policies, just like what many seniors who are on Medicare right now have. Other countries with various types of ....

Universal coverage still have supplemental policies available. As far as the 401k/IRA part of your question, a) insurance companies would still exist in every other sector and would continue (although smaller) in a M4A model b) significant numbers of average Americans...

Don’t have significant sums in those plans c) to me it’s a bit like asking what will happen to oil and gas stocks if we transition to renewable energy: the pros outweigh the cons.

Health care is 1/6 of the economy that you want to make almost completely non-profit. How do you mitigate the disruption to our economy? You touch briefly on health insurers, which make 10's of billions of dollars a year in profit by saying that loss will be rather minor,

which I find unbelievable all things considered, but say nothing about PROVIDERS, such as hospital and provider groups, nursing home chains, medical equipment and device manufacturers & providers, etc, etc.

The loss of capital in the stock market by making all these entities non-profit will be massive. You are rather privileged to be able to discount the importance of 401k's & IRA's as insignificant when many of us in the middle class are completely reliant on them for retirement...