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It's common knowledge. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone account for more than half of the total federal budget (before covid)

Progressives will tell you that these are expensive programs. Progressive wants to significantly cut the military, and replace medicare/medicaid with a single-payer universal system which would be far cheaper. They also want higher taxes to help fund these programs and redistribute wealth from the wealthy to the poor.

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Medicare is hardly a wealth redistribution scheme. Everybody needs healthcare.

While a fully organized single payer health system is obviously a massive expense, it is still the more financially moderate option compared to what we have today.