Medicare and Medicaid Are superior to private insurance in certain ways

We hear so often that medicare and medicaid are unable to provide care to patients in the way that privately funded care does, as an argument for privatizing both of them.  The logic goes that if they are not as good, then let's just do away with them.  However, this is simply not true.  The two articles included address two very different aspects of these plans, but both are crucial to understanding them.  In the first (you will have to copy and paste to read it) you will find that when 3 states that expanded medicaid were compared to 4 that did not, outcomes were superior in the former.  In the second, those on medicare were more satisfied with their health care than those in private plans.  Time and again, with equal access, private plans fall short.  It is time that we Enhanced Medicare and provided adequate funding to Medicaid, to strengthen these safety nets, instead of gutting them.  Enhanced Medicare for all is not the problem but the solution.  
 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444840104577549311758980038.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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