# Please persuade me why Medicare ought not be means tested **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 30, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-persuade-me-why-medicare-ought-not-be-means-tested/989365 "2023-08-30T21:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-persuade-me-why-medicare-ought-not-be-means-tested/989365/57 "2023-09-01T06:12:02Z")
I must say, on this side of the Atlantic, I know I’m not the only one finding this thread absolutely jaw-dropping: > [@America's Elder Crisis, Medicare Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146/104): > > Wait until you hit 65. You’ll need a shovel to dig yourself out of the mail. (They apparently don’t believe us geezers know how to use email.) And it goes on every year, five years and counting for me. As for the broader question of communal taxation vs. private provision, there’s another angle to view it from: the taxes I pay now are in part my contribution to the return taxpayers as a whole are entitled to expect on the investment already made in the infrastructure and socioeconomic-politicolegal environment that enables to me to have that comfortable an income. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-persuade-me-why-medicare-ought-not-be-means-tested/989365)._