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You are neither. You paid into it with a gun pointed at your head (figuratively speaking). Now the criminals who did it won't admit that your money is gone.

Sucks to be you, and me, by extension . . . because I'm being asked to carry "your" Ponzi "investment" forward.

1rudeboy, great, succinct comment.

Bob Ireland and others who feel personally insulted by the great Rush Limbaugh's tendency over the years to recognize the WELFARE aspect of Medicare:

How much has Rush Limbaugh been forced to pay into MEDICARE over the year? The payment never caps! He's paid millions and millions! Do you not think he has they right to identify a program that steals millions of dollars from him while acting like it is an insurance plan a "LEECH" ?

Instead, because you take it personally, I can only conclude that you do not understand that Medicare is a welfare scheme funded by a Ponzi scheme that has the advantage of not having to con anyone to participate since the victims are forced to play the game by a government gun held to their heads.

Medicare is WELFARE even though most of its participants refuse to recognize it. A few of those with a government gun to their head have paid in more than they will get out of the plan. No big surprise, that's how insurance works, more how it was originally intended. However, on the average it promises benefits to its masses that it is not designed to fund by their payments, and as such it would have failed, but instead it became a PONZI SCHEME that is funded with a government gun to the heads of younger people plus obviously fake promises.

The unfortunate fact is that many older adults now feel ENTITLED to get everything the con-man promised, even though the jig is up and the con exposed. In any other context you would be fine to recognize the "leech" aspect of it and permit Rush to be Rush and dramatize it!

I think you have better battles to fight than trying to make Rush understand that you don't consider yourself a leech. There really are a lot of people with Medicare plus other subsided coverage who refuse to pay one thin dime on their own for anything even though they have paid in virtually nothing. That's who he's talking about, not you. He mixes things up for drama, sometimes may have mixed up Medicare and Medicaid, it's radio and it's fluid and it's unscripted, but he's helping us, not hurting us!