not sure I see the relevance of your post
What I was trying to infer was that many of us now on Medicare were perfectly happy without it. We paid for insurance and were satisfied with it.
Medicare shoulkd not have been meant for those who already had insurance, it should have been for those who actually needed it.IMO Medicare was set up to save the insurance companies from having to pay out large dollars to insure older people who had been paying for insurance for years, it got insurance companies off the hook.The insurance lobby got it passed, I now still pay BC& BS, plus I get to pay for Medicare that I didn’t ask for.