It's time to considering working to abolish Medicare, Medicaid
 and Military retiree medical care.

 Consider it because the US Supreme Court is considering
 eviscerating National Health care. If National Health Care is
 lost, why consider the others?

 I expect some will think Medicaid is for welfare recipients, but
 they actually receive a clearly minority fraction of Medicaid.
 Elderly receive a large portion. Nursing homes for the elderly
 are paid for by medicaid.

 There are millions who either get private sector health
 insurance because of the National Health Care plan, and many
 more will after it takes full effect. Among those millions are
 many who are young adults who are on their parent's employer's
 insurance plans because of NHC. Two of my children are among
 those young adults.

 The Supreme Court may just invalidate the mandate. This won't
 make a great deal of difference now, and we will have years to
 fix that. It may allow the whole thing to stand, which will end
 that part of the problem, and, again, not make a whole lot of
 difference in the near term.

 However, the court may invalidate the entire bill.

 If that happens all those young adults will lose their
 insurance. If my children lose their medical insurance because
 the court declares the bill unconstitutional, why should I, and
 any other similarly situated parents, pay for your medical care
 through Medicare, Medicaid or Military Retiree care?

 Yes, I will be elegible for Medicare within one year, and I will
 lose out also, but any decent parent puts his children's welfare
 ahead of his own.

 There is no good reason I can see old people, most with no more
 than a few more years to live, and most contributing little or
 nothing to the economy, should get government financed medical
 care while children, the future of this country, are denied such
 care.

 I know those with military retiree medical benefits can claim
 they have a contract with the government, but, the righ tells us
 this country is going bankrupt. Under bankruptcy contracts are
 voided. Sorry bout that.

 We might have to continue the payroll taxes for a short time, to
 set up the National Ice Flow Initiative. Under that program the
 government will purchase lands with access to the great lakes,
 where it can break up winter ice into ice flows. They will then
 take the most ill and least contributing elderly and set them
 adrift on the ice flows.

 After all, a bankrupt country that can't provide for it's
 children needs to reduce the number of non-contributing elderly
 who will place a burden on those children.

 If you won't give, what right do you have to ask others to?



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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