“Medicare along with Obamacare should be cut by 100% and the money should be returned directly to the taxpayers. So much money would be returned that the taxpayers could afford health care and have a huge pile of money left over.”
There’s only one way you would have a “huge pile” of money left over. If Mom, Dad, Granny or Auntie are still alive and old they will be unable to support themselves, house themselves, pay for their medicine and food along with the doctor’s care and hospital care they will undoubtedly need at their advanced age. That leaves you to take up where all those government programs left off. They’re your family.
The only way you could avoid that expense is to keep the money for yourself and withhold care so they would die. This generation seems to have no problem whatsoever with that solution.
However, when reality finally set in, they would all be screaming for the the government to do something, anything to absolve them of their guilt at watching Granny expire under their care and watching that “huge pile” of money they had saved by scratching Medicare and Social Security dwindle to nothing.
Or, maybe not. Maybe that wouldn’t happen until they became old, sick and dependent themselves. Better think about all the ways Medicare and Social Security benefit you in roundabout ways before you advocate their abolishment. Social Security and Medicare were meant to be “pay it forward” programs and they would have worked if greedy politicians hadn’t stolen the money in the very beginning. After that it was a huge “Check and Go” scheme.
Who takes care of your Granny, Mom and Dad? I hope they’re all rich.