lets-retire
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I believe if they do allow the buy ins for Medicare, people would see that it is not much cheaper than private insurance and complain loudly. The buy-ins would then become subsidized and de facto Medicare coverage for people it was never intended to cover. When the government starts to offer the subsidies I think private insurance would stop providing coverage for those people. Similar to how a private disability insurance requires the recipient to apply for SSDI and then subtracts any SSDI payments amounts from their payments.