Quote:That's not medicare, that's medicaid.

 

They're two totally different things.

 

Medicaid is run by the states and the Republicans have been allowed to make it absolutely terrible.

 

Medicare is run by the federal government and has consumer ratings higher than any private insurance organization.

 

edit: Also, remember 6 years ago when all the tea party morons were out screaming about keeping the government's hands out of their medicare? That's because those morons want to keep their free federally funded government health insurance but didn't even understand that it was federally funded single payer insurance.

 

The republicans would love to turn medicare completely into a government funded private insurance scheme because that would allow them to make trillions of dollars for their cronies, but they don't actually want to do what needs to be done, which is getting rid of the age restriction on the program and fixing the republican added subprogram, Part D, that makes the cost of the program so untenable.