Is any current mainstream candidate advocating doing away with Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid? I really doubt it.
Well not if they want to get elected.
But the programs will have to be dealt with sooner or later. Medicare is hugely underfunded and it is getting worse by the year.
Social Security is not bringing in enough contributions from working people to pay current recipients and so is being supplemented out of general revenue.
We are Greece with the exception that we get loans at the prime rate because no one willing to let us fail “yet”