Who cares what judges or members of Congress think about Medicare?
I have already posted 5 excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions which reasonably clarify that the states have never delegated to the federal government, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to establish federal programs like Medicare.
So are you choosing to ignore what the Supreme Court has said about this issue because Constitution-ignoring judges and members of Congress are telling you what you want to hear?
No, I'm well aware of the history of those decisions.
The Butler case (the most recent of the cases you cited) was decided in 1936, one year before "the switch in time that saved nine." In early 1937, there was an abrupt change in the opinions of the Supreme Court on the question of federal power. One of the decisions in 1937 (post-"switch") found that the Social Security program was constitutional.
You began this exchange by pointing out that there is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes a "federal public healthcare program." i just pointed out that that analysis would render unconstitutional the Medicare program and that, while you and I might believe that program is unconstitutional, no one who is close to any political or judicial lever of power in this country agrees with us. And, when I say no one, I mean no one.