If you don't like the idea of government subsidizing this, then how can you argue they should continue to subsidize it for the richest? The only way out is probably gradual, as many depend on it now because that's the way things are.
What a convoluted piece of logic that phrase is! It is not subsidizing by the government to be forced to pay out 'fair'payments to EVERYONE who has contributed (even, those who've contribruted MORE than their FAIR share). I am only asking for EQUITY....
It is not the government subsidizing ANYTHING; the subsidizers are the middle income and high income earners, period. The government robs the more wealthy in Medicare because they can - just like they do with graduated taxes, EIC for the poor, and all of the other LIE programs at ALL levels of government. Wealthy people have something to lose and poor people don't, the big difference? Poor people are likely to vote for those that give them money. .