That’s the truly vile thing about programs like this (Medicare, Social Security, and whatever government healthcare takeover they pass):
You get a bunch of people dependent on it as they’re heavily subsidized by future payers. Then when it goes broke you have no way to end it because everyone cause say they’re owed.
The only way to unwind them is to declare a cutoff age, have people quit paying into from that point forward, and continue to pay out benefits to everyone above the cutoff age until it’s gradually eliminated.
It turns a large, endless, and ever-increasing money pit into a very large but finite red number.
" “Withering it on the vine” was a great idea but it interfered with the Democrat/Socialist movement and we were accused of wanting to kill of granny. Now we argue against a government option/socialized medicine and we are accused of wanting to kill off granny.
You have to hand it to leftists they ARE consistent.