[Jack Black]

The problem here is that there’s been a commitment made, one that a lot of people have helped finance over the years and have an expectation that the commitment will be kept.

Medicare is a commitment that people have helped finance. Medicaid is welfare. No one should expect a certain level of welfare, it's a pure gift and like all gifts is utterly dependent on the generosity of the giver.

[Jack Black]

I wrote: "Last I checked Medicare was a liberal program, put in place and supported by liberals. In a true free market system there would be no medicare."

That's true. And I'd like to see it done away with over time, taking into account that we've all been contributing for our whole lives, somehow.

But this article was about medicaid. That too was a liberal program (LBJ) and should be abolished, IMHO.

So while I stand by my comments they were a bit off topic.

Charity should be voluntary, not coerced by government. The Constitution does not permit taxing Jack to pay for John's healtcare becaues John doesn't have money of his own to pay for it.

People who want to continue these systems are not Constitutionalists, though they may be conservatives I guess, it's a type of deal-with-the-devil, big-government conservatives we don't usually support here at FR.