[rayiner]

Medicare is obviously welfare! It’s a socialized system where society pays for medical care for old people, instead of leaving old people or their families to pay for it themselves.

Of course whenever you have taxpayers paying for something for individuals, those taxpayers may properly decide to exclude undeserving individuals from receiving benefits.

[tzs]

Excluding undeserving individuals from government benefits is not controversial.

What would be controversial is classifying people as undeserving for past actions that

(1) were and are completely legal,

(2) are not even considered to be bad by a large fraction of the country, and

(3) have nothing whatsoever to do with what they are being excluded from.

[tptacek]

Well over 90% of Americans aged over 65 are Medicare beneficiaries, most of them having paid into the program throughout their whole lives. I think this argument is probably better suited to your twitter TL.