Medicare is/was personal asset choice. Medicaid is a bastardized government takeover of personal choice and wealth. I will despise any and all politicians who want me and my wife on Medicaid. I remember the ‘old’ days when company health plans served the working people very adequately. Then unions and government got together to kill the geese that laid the eggs.
I disagree.
The worst thing that happened was when healthcare became tied to employment during WW2.
It removed the cost connection between consumer and provider.