If you look at certain proposals you will find that in a government-run plan you have just one chance to buy into it, at age 64 and a half. It's a government-run for life, or nothing. Bureaucrats as Pharmacists. Government bureaucrats decide which drugs are and aren't covered. Seniors will lose their existing, private-sector coverage, whether they participate or not.
Experience shows employers drop coverage as soon as the government begins providing it.
Costs Seniors More in the Long Run. It's a bad deal for most seniors. The average senior will get only pennies a day of actual benefit. Incidentally, these costs are ON TOP OF your existing Part A, Part B, and supplemental-coverage costs. And the premiums for the drug coverage come directly out of your monthly Social Security check, whether you want to pay that way or not.