I’m pretty sure that Medicare is required. You can’t turn it down. If I am wrong, let me know.
Medicare still has an out of pocket payment as private insurance does. I wouldn’t be so hard on those on Medicare - not to be confused with medicaid
Tired folks.
I’ll check back later or in the morning.
Thanx everyone!
Which article and section of the Constitution do you feel authorizes the federal government to "require" medicare?
In anticipation of your response, let me include a letter from James Madison discussing the "general welfare" clause:
"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted."