There is a significant omission in Grace-Marie Turner’s commentary (“Americans are in no mood for another health-care upheaval,” Star-Advertiser, March 11).

The Medicare-for-all proposal would not eliminate availability of private, add-on insurance for anyone who can afford that additional coverage and prefers to use boutique clinics and/or hospitals that might opt out of the single-payer medical system.

There would still be some private insurers, just not as many. Still some out-of-system doctors, just not a lot.

Robert Owen Jones

Diamond Head

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