Medicare requires paying premiums over many years
I think they mean “ welfare” not “Medicare”
Good point.
Currently, people pay Medicare taxes for forty or fifty years, then they have to pay premiums for Medicare Part B, and further premiums for a "supplemental plan", if they want more than basic coverage.
Somehow, I don't think this model is what the Dems have in mind.
Or... maybe they do, and they figure that people are too dumb to figure it out, until after it happens.