Is this really a surprise to anyone?

Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Not that that's any consolation.
Here we have yet another proponent of nationalized health care taking the single-payer health care system's cost/benefit analysis to its logical conclusion. To wit: the elderly won't be around long enough to repay the system for the inordinate amount of resources expended on extending their lives. Therefore, NO SOUP FOR YOU.

Where is the AARP on this issue? I thought Boomers, et al were supposed to be the greatest voting bloc ever! Why is there no outrage about this? Because it's too hard to imagine? Is it willful blindness? Because it's too many years down the road? Just because someone says NOW "no, that's not going to happen" doesn't mean it won't happen AT SOME POINT. It's the logical conclusion.

A side question: it's almost a given that medical tourism will rise if/when this happens. But what's the chances a parallel "underground" health system will arise in America? A "black market" in health care, so to speak - and I'm not talking about alternative medicines and marijuana here. I have no idea. The thought just occurred to me.