Comment on Colorado faces $1.6 billion budget deficit as Medicaid costs mushroom, state officials say by Factory Working Orphan

In reply to Dick MOORE. "I hate socialism but believe that healthcare should be free for everyone, just like our national guard. Then the State would be out of the Medicare business along with Health Insurance companies. It will happen eventually as it makes too much sense." The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services spent over $2.2 trillion last fiscal year. The problem isn't a lack of "free healthcare," the problem is a program made for a high-trust society is being exploited by low-trust people because they think Medicaid in particular is a paypiggy to be sucked dry.