Because Republicans hate Medicare too and want to privatize it as their compromise? If they didn't have to compromise, they'd destroy it along with Social Secur

Because Republicans hate Medicare too and want to privatize it as their compromise? If they didn't have to compromise, they'd destroy it along with Social Security. But they know full well they'd pay too high a political price, so that's why their policy is to make government programs suck as much as possible so they can keep up the government blame game.