Anon.: Unless companies wish to cover retirees fully, I can't see ending Medicare - unless of course we give employers an exemption from paying Medicare taxes if they do cover retirees (including past employees who spent most of their career working for them and ended somewhere else). Covering retirees in-house would also work if medical care were provided in-house. This is how Tricare works, I believe - and why it is constitutional to provide health care for veterans. If we send them to get shot up, it is constitutional to treat their wounds - or their PTSD. By the same token, health care is provided to governmnent employees and retirees.