Making Too Much Sense

MEDICARE, MEDICAID, Obamacare. Is there any redundancy in these three programs? Do we really need all three, or even two of them? Wouldn't one suffice? Medicare is a health care program for poor people, correct? And medicaid is a health care program for older people, righto? (or is it the other way around?) Both administered by the federal government, using revenue from federal taxes. Now along comes Obamacare, a government program of health care for...the poor, the elderly? Anyone who needs it? But who needs public health care? Who, above everyone else, need either medicare, medicaid, or obamacare, any of them? Why, the poor people, isn't that so? Isn't it the poor people who need any or all of the above big three, and the poor alone? Everyone else can afford free market health care, eh? In other words, the non poor can afford free market corporate health care, the middle and upper classes. Poor people need cheap, guaranteed health care whether they are old or not. Wealthy people can afford any kind of health care they want, presumabley free market corporate health care, whether they are young, middle aged, or elderly. So why have three government health care programs, rather than just one? Just one, for poor people who need it, guaranteed, cheap, paid for by everyone, rich, middle classes,, old, young. Paid for by everyone according to ability to pay, used by people in accordance with their need for it. True socialism. But three different programs? Medicare has been expanded under obamacare. So why do we need obamacare, since we can expand medicaid? Wouldn't it be simpler, and cheaper, just to have one, truly socialistic health care program for the only people who need such a thing, the poor people, paid for by the only people who can pay for it, the middle and upper classes? If the poor could pay for it, they wouldn't need it, because they could afford free market corporate health care, right? With a single truly socialistic health care program, instead of three half socialistic half capitalistic overlapping, redundant health care programs, one can scarely imagine how much money could be saved, and how much efficiency could be improved. Unfortunately, it'll never happen, because it makes too much sense.