Comment by JuniperMesos
10 hours ago
People hate it when faceless bureaucrats decide that some health care expense is too expensive for the large faceless bureaucracy to cover, when they have a medical issue that they would like the large faceless bureaucracy to spend money on. Perhaps in that world, some insane guy with a back injury who's unhappy about the quality of his care assassinates the Secretary of Health and Human Services, rather than the CEO of a medical insurance corporation (and hey, a lot of people hate RFK Jr. anyway, so maybe that assassin still becomes a folk hero for doing it).
The HHS secretary during that time wasn't RFK, it was Xavier Becerra.
This is already how Medicare works and it covers 70 million Americans. I’m not aware of any of these hypothetical violent outcomes being a huge problem for the program.