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Social Security and Medicare are quite obviously designed to transfer wealth to the old. They would be means tested if they were merely safety nets meant to prevent the old from suffering and dying in poverty.

I have no problem at all with means testing, I care about the people who are literally unable to afford healthcare they need and to support themselves to a reasonable level of existence. Healthcare should be universal because its just cheaper and more efficient all around, but if you have someone with a large income, I don't see any need for the state to provide payments to help support them. Then again Social Security was built on the promise of a payout for a pay in wasn't it? I don't think it'd be fair to change the playing field for existing contributors, but building a new mandatory means tested system seems perfectly reasonable for future generations.