Now how in the hell does Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare keep people in poverty, because those are 80% of entitlement spending. When healthcare costs drain your retirement, what is your plan B, what's the backstop? How does fucking you over help ME? I mean that's not seriously a question _I_ ask, because I literally do not see how hanging you out to dry helps me, because SOMEONE is going to pay for your ER visit and put you up in a old folks home, and we're not pulling an Old Yeller on you.
Funny story, this is exactly the problem I'm thinking of. Health care costs have been driven up by ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE faster than inflation, and almost all of that is administration and management. Getting a blood draw is 5% real costs, 10% labor, and 85% red tape. Congrats, that should have been $30 and now you're out $200.
Medicare and Medicaid are how we smuggled bureaucracy into everyone's health care. Rather than letting states run their own health care, we created massive federal apparatuses that add layers and layers and layers to every health care decision. Nobody - left, right, or center- wants to talk about this. Nobody wants to actually fix entitlements, because that means firing hundreds of thousands of federal and state factotums and taking a Trillion Dollars out of special interests every year.