Sorry I badly misquoted the medicare budget, counting it with other mandatory spending to make up about 2/3. This includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, student loans, and interest on the debt. Medicare is the biggest chunk of that and is about 24% of the total budget.



(video is from 2012, but it applies today to an even greater extent)

I don't know what the correct percentage medicare should be. I do know that seniors in the U.S. are rapidly becoming the most affluent age bracket and it makes me question the necessity of spending 24% of a multi-trillion budget on their healthcare when most of them do not need the money.