I disagree.
Why?
Well, for starters, go to the most recent Wichita KS Tea Party posts.
The couple holding the big signs, on bed sheets, that said “no Socialized Medicine”???
They were LIBERTARIANS!
And I spoke to the woman holding one end of the sign, and she said, “Well, I have paid into SS and Medicare for all these years and -—”
I had to argue with her, and tell her that one bad government program does NOT justify another bad government program -— This after a car that drove by yelled, “Medicare is Socialized Medicine, are on on Medicare??”
In other words, there are even LIBEERTARIANS that do not support the elimination of Medicare or Medicaid.
Get real.
Figure out what is possible.
Fight for THAT!
Once the Boomers hit Medicare in a big way and the multi-trillion yearly deficits begin, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted.
This will happen irrespective of whether Obamacare is enacted or not, or whether conservatives or liberals are in power. It’s simply impossible to tax employers and employees enough to support unlimited access to unlimited medical technology at the ratio of 2 taxpayers per recipient.
If there is a Medicare program in 2035, it will be so different from today’s program as to be unrecognizable. Or - there will be no Medicare, and retirees’ health care will be determined by what they and their families can afford to pay out of pocket.
I’m not prepared to let the GOP ignore these facts any more than I would be prepared to let the Rats ignore them.