You're kidding, right?
Your total paid Medicare taxes would pay for about 3 days in an ICU, or one heart operation.
Most Medicare recipients consume 3, 4, 5, or 10 times what they've paid in.
So, you think that Medicare is free once they force you to sign up and you only pay for it through payroll taxes?
I could have kept my private health insurance at about the same “PREMIUM” rate as I have to pay every month for Medicare.
Your ICU / heart operation comparison will cost the same many time greater than YOU pay in private insurance, that why we buy insurance, so that’s an idiotic argument.