General Discussion

If you really believe that people on Medicare and "the poor" are two completely separate groups with no overlap, you are sadly mistaken. There is plenty of overlap.

Eligibility for Medicare is based on age, not income. Seniors are all over the map, economically speaking, and it's grossly inaccurate to speak of Medicare recipients, seniors, or "boomers" as if we are all uniformly well off financially.

Some seniors are very wealthy or at least reasonably comfortable, but many others are living below the poverty line. A lot more of us are somewhere in between, scraping by as best we can on our fixed incomes.

Medicare is literally keeping a lot of us alive, because we require medical care, prescriptions, insulin, etc., that we would not be able to afford on our own. Only the wealthiest seniors will be able to pay for all of that out of their own pockets if Medicare is ever yanked away from us.

Please do not ever, EVER assume that all seniors are comfortably off financially or that we don't desperately need our Medicare benefits.