They already DID pay for “it”.
Some would say they invested wisely, albeit forcibly, via weekly payroll deductions throughout their entire working lives.
I did.I even have all my W2s before and after the Feds split their “take” from SSAN into two parts.
Are you confusing Medicaid with Medicare?
That's OK. Lots of ignorant people do that.
That doesn't mean I think you are stupid, I just know you are horribly ignorant.
Medicare is supposed to pay for elderly health care expenses, via the taxes from years of prepaid workers premiums.
Medicaid is an unfunded federal program, that drains the “funds” of all past, current and future Medicare payers, for political reasons.
All the greedy old people who have pre-paid their medical expenses via taxes for several decades, must now step aside, because the feds spent the money on other people?
Lay down the pipe, and stop smoking whatever it is you use to alter physical reality!
I understand your thinking, and have 40+ years of contributions myself, but the typical Medicare recipient receives about $4 in service for each dollar put in.
It’s truly an unsustainable Ponzi scheme.
Amen
Sorry, but Social Security is just as you described, and it’s insolvent just like Medicare. We need to chop ALL entitlements, including Social Security and Medicare.
The key words here are "supposed to pay for".....since seniors still have to PAY for Medicare out of their own pockets and even after all of those decades of paying into the system via taxes out of their paychecks. I believe my neighbor says she pays around $100 a month for Medicare. And that doesn't even cover all of her medical costs, only about 80%. She still has to fork over even more money per month for supplemental insurance to cover what Medicare does not cover, just as my mother had to do....and all on a VERY limited, small, fixed income (neighbor had to apply for social security at 62.... since there are no jobs available for folks her age in the Obamanation).
It's all one big government scam.....like everything else socialists push, propose and support.