Don't look now GI, but every pay check you receive pays premiums to Medicare -- long before you are even eligible to use that Federally mandated health insurance plan. It is a pyramid scheme that uses your "contributions" to pay for the care of your elderly relatives until you become 65 years old. Let's see, I started working at 16 years old and I'm now 59 -- six more years and I become eligible to use a health insurance policy I have been paying for over the last 43 years!