Medicare-E(veryone) is a great slogan.
I think it is a good animating vision for a desired end point.
It is not serious policy yet.
Medicare-E instead of managed competition is a debate about means. I want to assume that I share the same desired end of most Medicare-E/single payer advocates (namely making sure everyone in this country has access to affordable, competent and effective health care.) I am assuming that is a shared end goal. But I have a hard time seeing how the end goal is achieved by an attractive slogan that has minimal policy back-up support.
I understand the desire to use Medicare as the basic structure of a national single payer system as it is a pre-exisiting program whose skeleton is strong enough to build on. However that skeleton has some odd deformities to it, and a lot of trade-offs have been built into Medicare that would need to be re-examined if we were to massively expand Medicare’s scope. I have a big series of questions that Medicare-E advocates would need to answer to transform a slogan into a policy program as Medicare E is not a matter of simply printing up new ID cards and mailing them to everyone in the country with a start date three months from the mail date.