Medicare and Medicaid are run like shit, pay far too little because of cost controls and cost far too much. Those costs are brought back to us in the end when they force prices of services down and the rest we see in tax dollars. Expanding that to the entire country would be a disaster.
That said, there are some things that NEED to be ran by government because they are untenable in the private sector. Elderly care is defiantly one such area. Even though I believe that Medicare is a joke it is still necessary for the government to run it so don't take this like I don't support the program. I simply recognize that it is untenable at a national level. It only works because the vast majority are covering the small minority.
