you watching Beck?
From my persprective, it’s a question of not screwing the folks who have been paying into the Medicare monstrosity for the last 44 years.
I opposed Medicare back when I was a senior in high school. The scheme was passed under LBJ and we were stuck with paying for it. I started work when I graduated in ‘66 and I was compelled to pay taxes to support Medicare right off the bat and I am still paying them in the form of the Self-Employment Tax 43 years later.
I didn’t want Medicare but it was forced on me and now that I am in the program (due to disability from cancer), I am worried about the huge cuts that the Dhimmis are pushing. Am I a hypocrite to want to get out of Medicare what I put into it (actually, I am on a Medicare Advantage plan with Aetna)?
I’m sure that many conservative Medicare patients feel the same way. If there was some private option that I could turn to that wouldn’t mean throwing away the thousands of dollars that Medicare has received from me since ‘66, terrific. But no such plan exists and I’ve yet to hear of anybody proposing one. How such a thing would be economically viable I cannot imagine.