It is entirely correct that the young have to pay for the old. It's not robbing from the young who "don't need" it. It's the young paying for their own selves w

It is entirely correct that the young have to pay for the old. It's not robbing from the young who "don't need" it. It's the young paying for their own selves who absolutely will need it. Setting aside the reality of the system which will happily collect premiums for 40 years and then use any slightest technicality to avoid paying in the end, ie like changing jobs or providers and it's like you were born on the day of that switch and haven't been paying in your whole life. That is a seperate issue from the simple concept that the young somehow "don't need" to be contributing to the health care pool because they "don't need" to dip from it. In this, there are no individuals and it's not some elective luxury like how much you want to blow on toys. Merely in the US, we have been treating it like it was, except even worse, because when I buy a fancy over the top steak, I know the price ahead of time and get no surprises after the fact either. I don't just get hit with $500 steak bills with no warning or choice or recourse and thank god my boss takes $12k out of my salary so that I only have to pay a $50 deductible and fill out 3 forms correctly for that $500 steak I didn't ask for...