On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:39:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 12:39:55 AM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
>>
>> > We have to nibble around the edges to get health care for everybody.
>>
>> Perhaps. When free Medicare for all comes to fruition, I want every
>> dime I ever paid into it back. Then we will all have a fresh start in
>> the new, rosy utopia. Is there anything wrong with that idea?
>>
>> leo
>
>Why would you expect every dime back? (Not to mention that most people
>under the current Medicare get much more back than they ever paid in.)
>
>Who paid for the first generation of Social Security recipients? The
>people who were working at the time. It's been that way ever since.
>Same with Medicare.

Everybody's selfish, but if too many people are too selfish, you get a
disfunctional country.