There are programs for you

paid in full so no worries ...

at least to those who dont get stuck paying for them

Those on Medicare now have been paying into it since roughly 1965. Many, like me, paid all our working life, but will never use it as we have better private insurance.

There are two major problems:

1. Health care has been getting more and more costly every year for many years. For at least 20 years health care costs have risen much faster than inflation.

2. We are older, fatter, and less healthy now than ever before in our history.

I watched a discovery special on obesity in America the other night. It was shocking. The health care costs we will face due to obesity are simply staggering. No matter who pays, or how, we are facing a health care fiscal crisis that will be mind boggling.