If we were to get single payer, what would happen to all the outstanding medical debts?

Has anyone else wondered this?

other than that you are on your own. i don't think anything will happen to existing medical debts.

that is the way I heard it...

But what Howard Dean said was that he considered merely having a public option as "single payer" even though there were private companies still selling health insurance. Obviously that's a little bit of a stretch but Ed's guest tonight said he supported a public option although he didn't refer to that as single payer.
Dr. Dean... a bit of a salesman on this. But President Obama himself said single payer was off the table.

A public option will lead to true single payer eventually when employers realize they don't need to pay $600 per month per employee when the government covers everyone for a $100 a year or whatever it comes to. Private insurers won't be able to stay in business selling insurance at $100 a year AND pay claims! There won't be enough billions to pay the CEO's and that will be the end of that.

That's good enough for me. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Even if people were to opt for a public plan. I haven't read anything that states that coverage would be $100 a year. I pay $100 a month for Medicare. I would imagine it would be much more than that. Medicare, after all, has its own problems.

No offense intended.