GET RID OF IT: Americans will never 'grow up' as long as we have Medicare.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. But as long as we have 'Medicare,' we’re going to continue ... to behave as if we think there is one.

It is not possible to do otherwise. When people don’t see their arrangements for medical care as a fee-for-service proposition, but rather as a collective “social insurance” scheme, in which the emotion of the moment will always be the tiebreaker for lawmakers’ decisions about other people’s money, no one has to 'grow up.'

Our political class has been steadily infantilizing the American public for at least the last 50 years; this - near-bankruptcy and defacto slavery - is the inevitable result.

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