Medicare doesn't grant good coverage in terms of who you can see and what you can get, and is a very socialist policy. There are better ways, and maybe Medicare is a stepping stone to those better ways but we haven't reached it yet. Realistically, it's in conjunction with normalizing incredibly unhealthy lifestyles BEYOND things like more sedentary lifestyles; I'm talking like normalizing and praising literal landwhales and making them immune to criticism so that more seek it which causes Medicare to be very expensive beyond reasonable.

Social Security is DEFINITELY a scheme; if you save the money that is put into it, you would have far more by the time you need it as well as having a cushion if times get hard.

What Social Security really is is a tool to bribe and saber rattle over when they need votes one way or another.