Why Medicare Makes No Sense

Politicians love to play the Medicare “card.” More and more, we hear talk from politicians about reducing deficits – over $1 tillion for the fourth year in a row – or reducing the national debt – now larger ($15.3 trillion+) than U.S. GDP ($15.1 trillion). Politicians from both parties trip over each other to assure senior citizens that they won’t mess with Medicare. 

Senior citizens vote. Senior citizens make up a large and growing percent of eligible voters. So you can understand what’s going on here.

But you don’t have to oppose government-guaranteed health care to understand the absurdity of this political grand-standing. You only have to use your reason and common sense to know that Medicare makes no sense.

Medicare was created in the 1960s. It relies on there being enough people under 65 who are working and paying taxes to fund the government's program of medical care of people over 65, that is, Medicare. But  now there aren’t enough people under 65 anymore to pay for the growing number of people over 65 who need medical care.

Once you know that, your reason and common sense can only come to one conclusion: Medicare makes no sense.

There may be other ways for the government to provide health care to people, but Medicare isn’t it. So when politicians trip over each other to assure senior citizens that they won’t mess with Medicare, they’re either not using their reason and common sense, or they’re lying.

If they were to use their reason and common sense – and some do – they could easily figure out that either the government can’t provide health care for people over 65, or they would find some alternative ways that did make sense for the government to provide health care to people.

If they’re lying, we saw in our last post about "Liar Loams" what happens when people lie. That can only end in tears and/or disaster.

Liar Loans and Medicare were pretty simple examples of how reason and common sense can cut through all the noise and nonsense out there.