Rigby5
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- Apr 23, 2017
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Medicare to go broke three years earlier than expected ...Medicare is one of the most successful programs in the whole country, with admin costs less than 10% that of private health care. The only reason Medicare is not better is that it does not hire its own doctors and nurses directly, like the VA does, and would be even more efficient.
https://www.politico.com › 2018/06/05 › medicare-outlook-2026-625908
Jun 5, 2018 - Medicare's hospital trust fund is expected to run out of money in 2026, three years earlier than previously projected, the program's trustees said ...
If the military isn't going to go broke, Medicare isn't either.
Bad news Buckwheat.. they're both going to go broke unless the way government operations are conducted drastically changes for the better.
Contrary to popular delusion resources aren't infinite, even in the good ole US of A.
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." -- Herbert Stein
I see no one demanding higher taxes to pay down the 23 Trillion. If we are going to go down I would prefer doing it by helping people as opposed to needlessly blowing people up.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution, that grants Congress the right, of expending on articles of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison, annals of Congress, 1794
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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
...}
The founders did intend for states to do most of the social services, but increases in mobility made that impractical.