Re: Medicare
You pay into it all of your working life and then, when you get old and want to use medicare, you have to liquidate all of your assets except $2000 and your house. That is flat-out morally wrong.
Maybe i'm naive, but a private health insurance policy wouldn't have such a "destitution" clause. At least, I wouldn't sign it if it did. Yeah, those politicians care. They care about spending your money on another hunk of concrete with Robert Byrd's name on it.
Everything you have said is what I believe as well.
There are so many better options but everytime one is mentioned the AARP goes ballistic even when they are told it doesn't affect the people drawing SS money today. You would think people were taking the food out of their mouths the way they talk.
Don't think anyone with medical insurance should be required to pay into medicare for all those years when a lot of people will never use it because they have medical plans that go into retirement. Personally I think it is a rip off!