If we want Medicare to work we are going to have to raise Medicare taxes and premiums.

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128. You are on to something

This is a good start but what about letting everyone under 55 buy in if they want to, since we will all soon have to buy Health Ins.

The profit from the younger healthier "clients" premiums could help to off set the cost of others. The system could stay close to how it is to day for the elderly but allowing younger people to "buy in" this would be creating a single payer system for anyone who wants to join. Why pay for health Ins. only to have Medicare pay for you when you are most likely to need it the most, letting your health ins. provider whom you payed for most of your life off the hook?

Those who do not want to buy in early do not have to they can get it from another provider like they do now. This way we would not be adding any new mandate just offering the medicare ins. to anyone who wants to buy in to it.