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Now, people love to uh ask this question as though it's a gotcha, but the reality is is that there's actually a lot of different ways that you can pay for this, but I'll give you one just as an example.
I'm a member of Congress. My salary is public information. I get paid $174,000 a year. Now, I have to maintain apartments in two cities. That's a whole separate issue. I get paid $174,000 a year. I pay and kick in for my health insurance and my employer kicks in for my health insurance to United Healthcare. I would much rather that money that goes out of my paycheck to go to Medicare instead of United Healthcare. It would actually, you don't even have to give me a break on it. I'm not even asking for help. It would be cheaper and it would help more people and the care would be cheaper too.
Even just letting people buy Medicare is would be a step forward um and would introduce solveny to the system. But here's another thing to think about. This is a thing that people don't think about. Medicare right now covers people 65 and up for the most part. seniors and seniors, older people are the most expensive segment of people to ensure. It is no shade if we are all lucky we will we will reach that age. But we are already insuring the most expensive population segment in America right now. If you started allowing young people to be covered by Medicare, they make systems solvent because they use it way less, but their proceeds go to helping everybody. Helps.