Medicaid:


Medicare:


And ... Output per person (in other words, productivity)


Am I the only one that gets viscerally infuriated when looking at these numbers?

Why the hell does my family and I have to support people who would rather sit on their butt and play video games all day? (Medicare excluded - granted)
I know that people have the story where they're waiting in line at the grocery store and the person in front of them sits there and divides their items into two piles... one thats paid for by us, and one that they pay for out of pocket. When I was 14 and working as a bag boy at Harris Teeter, it happened WITH EVERY case where a person was paying with "supplemental assistance". Its a broken system that promotes unproductive behavior. You say that it benefits society to take care of our fellow citizen? I think taking care of them is motivating them to go out and be productive and contribute to society - not financing their decay into serfdom.