Medicare for All – The Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Health Care Plans (opens in new tab)

Yes. The plan is to cut payments to providers. This includes doctors. I'm sorry.

The reason candidates feel a need to propose anything related to health care is that the costs are too high. Anybody expecting lower costs without cutting, you know, costs isn't engaging reality.

So yes, any serious proposal to address the cost of health care in America will include cuts to the costs of health care in America, which includes hospitals, doctors, and so on. This seems blindingly obvious.

The linked blog post seems to want the current system to be preserved as-is, with no cuts to anything. Which is a viewpoint, but not a very popular one.

I agree that short term providers will likely take in less money with a "Medicare for all" solution, but I think the problem presented by this blog post is overstated/misrepresented: 1) The "Over 65" demographic visits the hospital more than other demographics so comparing raw number of people is an apples to oranges comparison (65+ somewhere between 3-10x more likely to utilize an inpatient stay, https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb235-Inpati...) 2) Roughly half of all administrative costs in US hospitals are associated with billing. Administrative costs are lower in single payer systems because hospitals don't need to bargain and coordinate billing with multiple parties. Doctors will still be needed by hospitals, but hospital workers/sales people/VPs who bargain with insurance companies will be less necessary. This is a significant percentage of hospital expenditures [https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2...] Administrative staff seem much more likely to see paycuts or staffing cuts rather than necessary staff like doctors/nurse.