Oh, stop it!
If you were "paying for Medicare", you would have been paying upwards of $10,000/year!
You never did that, right?
What you did pay for wouldn't last you two days in a hospital, never mind two months in an ICU.
Abolish Medicare, or pay for it (really pay for it, I mean).
Those are the choices. The GOP policy - keep it, expand it to include drugs, incorporate all advances, and give it away for a premium of a tiny fraction of what it costs - is corrupt.
How queer!!!
BTW, read my comment. I didn't say medicare shouldn't be shut down.
My comment is directed at the fact that medicare is just another way to add to the general fund and dump the liability and expense on future generations.
That's said, I would still like my money back...with interest!
Hold on there, Jimbo. The typical worker pays Medicare taxes for about 50 years, then is eligible for Medicare coverage for maybe 10 or 15 years after retirement. If the amount paid in over that 50 years (and matched by employers) had been set aside and invested it would buy an awful lot of health care.
So yes, we have been “paying for Medicare”. And as a small business owner with eight employees, I’ve been paying for a whole lot of Medicare!