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Only the VA being constitutional. As we are talking government employees, or retirees.
Single payer will open the can of worms that makes Medi... get pulled into the litigation, which it has never been challenged.
Umm, my sister and her kid have tricare for life and neither of them have ever worked for the government.
The SSA was challenged and found to be constitutional. I would imagine that Medicare would be found constitutional on the same grounds, but I don't know if Medicare was ever directly challenged.
May I add that Medicare was never self sustaining. Tens of millions enrolled in the 60's who never contributed a dime towards it. It took the baby boom to fund Medicare for the " greatest generation".
The baby boom is the only generation to have paid into Medicare their entire working lives.
The primary thing wrong with Medicare is that payroll taxes did not keep pace with medical treatment cost inflation.
It can never be self-sustaining and taxes could never be raised to fully accommodate it.
It will always take new money creation over the years moving forward, assuming medical costs continue upwards. An easy assumption IMO.
Umm, my sister and her kid have tricare for life and neither of them have ever worked for the government.
That is because your brother-in-law is military.
When he divorces her, she will lose her Tri-care coverage. The kids will keep theirs until 18... Not even 26 as ACA mandates.
Medicare and Medicaid are tax bills, just like ACA. You are taxed via FICA for those programs.
Medicare is actually very good health insurance. I am on it and have had absolutely no problems with it.
And the reason it has never been challenged if it is constitutional or not.
Social Security, the same way, but as with ACA it would be constitutional under a tax loophole.
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