There is growing support in the United States, especially among left-of-center constituencies, for universal government-managed health care coverage achieved by expanding Medicare down the age scale and expanding Medicaid up the income scale. Many supporters of this double-creep approach, which, once achieved, would displace both Medicare and Medicaid as separate programs, simply assume that both of these programs work well and would continue to work well if expanded and then merged. That may or may not be true of Medicare, but it is certainly not true of Medicaid.
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