Most people on SS and medicare don't suck the teet as you think. Unless you're retired, if you become disabled it takes years for most to qualify, most get denied, have to get lawyers even after Doctors disable them. It's almost standard unless they fastrack a terminal illness, expect to wait years, 3-5 is standard.
To use medicare or caid, you first have to qualify, meaning you can have no assets of real value, then go through more red tape than you can imagine.
I've worked getting several truly disabled people help. Some couldn't stand it any longer living in severe pain and killed themselves. Many thousands of Americans face the will to live over pain with no care daily. Most that I know and deal with were middle class, worked hard, just got a severe illness that stopped them from working, then the insurance goes, Doctors , lose meds, then it's homelessness unless a family member will move you in.
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