> It is a way to funnel money from everybody (or, everybody who is poor enough to make their money by earning wages under 100k) to people who bill for end of li

> It is a way to funnel money from everybody (or, everybody who is poor enough to make their money by earning wages under 100k) to people who bill for end of life and chronic care. You can say those words (modulo one hundred thousand) about many single-payer healthcare systems. It is not right to do this, to interpret medical systems under a cynicism maximization principle. It doesn't tell the Truth. After all, these services also provide concentrated conduits for medical care to flow to the citizens. > So. When I think of that, and when I think of those TV ads that promise they can sell scooters to sickly oldsters who can little afford them except for a Medicare subsidy I think those scooters greatly improve some people's quality of life. If you want to hear stories about companies trying to take advantage of medicare/medicaid, I could tell you quite a few myself -- I have a close relative that worked on the government side of things there.