http://thefundforpersonalliberty.org/medicare-lawsuit-update/index.html
The implications of this decision are very bad. However, I'd also feel more sympathetic to these particular plaintiffs if they weren't trying to escape Medicare to continue receiving enhanced taxpayer-funded government medical insurance that is better than that the rest of us are forced onto.
While the judge is IMHO wrong that you MUST accept Medicare or forego your SS pension benefits, it would also be wrong for all government workers to be able to jump from the Medicare system to enhanced lifetime medical benefits through a judicial decision.
“to continue receiving enhanced taxpayer-funded government medical insurance that is better than that the rest of us are forced onto.”
As far as I can tell, only 2 of the plaintiffs-one a former CongressCritter from Texas-Dick Armey- are former Federal employees trying to keep their taxpayer subsidized Cadillac-Care...the other two appear desirous of not having to forfeit that which they’ve been coerced into paying for through a lifetime’s work-although I suspect that one of them-a founder of E-Trade-could probably pay cash for his care, or purchase without difficulty whatever policy he might choose.
The moral, right thing to do, is to grant people the choice, without robbing them of their SS.
Government, in the absence of being seen as a moral, just entity, ultimately maintains itself only via the barrel of a gun.