“I think about it as a floor. … Imagine it to be like public schools. No matter where you live, you have a public school system that is there for your kid. … Medicare for all is that guarantee. Everyone's enrolled, everyone pays in. If you would like to have a private insurer above that, you're welcome to do that. But our goal is to build a floor so high that most folks would be like, why would I?”

…about it as a floor. And to get at the question explicitly, imagine it to be like public schools. No matter where you live, you have a public school system that is there for your kid. You pay taxes into that system. That system is always going to be there for you. You may enroll your kid, you may not enroll your kid. That is still there for you, right? You are guaranteed a public education. Medicare for all is that guarantee. Everyone's enrolled, everyone pays in. If you would like to have a private insurer above that, you're welcome to do that. But our goal is to build a floor so high that most folks would be like, why would I? This covers everything I possibly could need. The other important differentiator here is that when we're talking about Medicare for All, we're not talking about health care. We're talking about health insurance. One of the things that people don't appreciate about our current system is that the current system actually chokes off innovation in the healthcare provision side. So just to put in…