The private sector simple solution mentioned is for all of us to buy long term care insurance.
But such insurance is very expensive, which helps explain why so few people have long-term care policies.
With Medicare clawback, the heirs do.
Of course, importing millions of illegals - also using our tax dollars - and putting them immediately on Medicaid does tend to dry up the pie for all of those who have paid the tax for their entire working lives.
Social security and Medicare - the third rail for politicians, until they can get enough voters to change the rules for them.
So is medicare and social security. It’s all a scam.
80% of what is spent per person on health care, in their entire lifetime is spent on their last 2 years of life.. Medicare basically is where 80% of all medical spending comes from...
A simple fact, no one will tell you.
The US pretends to not be a single payer system, but for all practical reasons it is.
And the care you get on Medicaid is often worth what you paid for it.
Which is why so many people on Medicaid in my neck of the woods use the ER for non-emergent care.
Obamacare is bankrupting Medicaid
The huge problem with Medicaid is the “claw back” provisions that destroy a surviving spouse or family members after the Medicaid patient dies.