I think most adults know that Medicare is the only game in town for those 65 and over. I don’t know a single person that expected any new health care plan to abandon it.
It wasn’t set up as part of Obamacare. It isn’t what our focus was on right now.
We are addressing private health care insurance in this nation. With insurance companies dropping out, Obamacare would have wound up single payer at some point. Game set match to Obama...
We didn’t want that. We wanted the government to get out of the markets Obamacare was set up to take over. We wanted a proliferation of insurance plans, the exact opposite of what Obamacare was designed to produce.
Medicare and MediCaid were not set up under Obamacare, although some states blew out MediCaid by covering indigents under that.
I support privatization of Social Security and Medicare. That will take 25-40 years. People entering the work force now would contribute to a plan that would be their own vested retirement and health care account.
Government would be out of everything but MediCaid in 25-40 years.
I want to see full employment and very few people on MediCaid. In ten years I’d like to see fewer than 15 million on it.
As the privatization of Social Security and Medicare progressed, I’d eventually like to see it lower than ten million, hopefully around 5 or less.
I didn’t ask for a history lesson...a simple YES would have done it. :)