No one wants to diagnose the major healthcare problem facing the United
States today, and no one wants to acknowledge the role of illegal aliens
in driving Medicare and Medicaid over the cliff.
Medicare, a federal health insurance policy amended to the Social
Security program (Title XVIII) in 1965, is not nor has it ever been
free.
U.S. workers have Medicare payments deducted from their paycheck and
after retirement from their Social Security check. Medicare covers about
80 percent of bills for hospitals, doctors, medicine, rehabilitation,
and ambulance services for persons over 65 years of age, persons younger
than 65 with certain disabilities, and all persons with end-stage
kidney failure.
To cover the balance, Medicare customers purchase supplemental insurance
on the open market. Medicare is impacted when Congress regularly raids
the Social Security account for other purposes.
In contrast, Medicaid is a federal assistance program for low-income and
disabled persons paid for by taxpayers at large. Medicaid also was
amended to the Social Security program (Title XIX).
Medicare is today a troubled program bloated by unemployment and illegal immigration.
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