To reform our crumbling healthcare system, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders advocates what he calls Medicare-for-All. The name is disingenuous, a falsehood. What he is pushing is MediCAID-for-All. Medicare is a health savings account where you pre-pay your future medical expenses. You pay a portion of your paycheck each month for forty years. Washington holds that money in a trust. When you retire, the money you saved is used to cover your old-age medical costs. Medicare is not and never was an entitlement: you paid for it. Medicaid is an entitlement for low-income Americans. Washington, working through the states, gives no-charge government-approved health insurance to 70 million Americans. In contrast to Medicare, Medicaid recipients pay nothing. The Medicaid of 2016 is not the Medicaid that Congress passed in 1964. The original law was written to help those “unable to support themselves” (direct quote from original legislation.) Inability to provide for...(Read Full Article)