Medicare Is Not the Only Mandatory Part of Medicare

No it's not the only mandatory part of Medicare is that you pay taxes into the program if you don't want to sign up for Medicare you don't have to. Yet 99% of eligible US residents enroll in the Medicare program because partly because they won't lose Social Security benefits. The subsidies seniors receive through the Medicare program are so lavish and yet some people still point to Medicare as a model for forming the entire US health sector. People do support Medicare for all because they don't understand the Medicare program, he says.